To find out which leaf shapes led to leaves falling closest to their tree, the pair built an automated device that could shed 100 artificial leaves, made of paper, inside a water tank.

There are no moving parts and it has no set shape or size. The leaf is semiconducting silicon, coated on one side with a special cobalt catalyst, discovered by the project’s Daniel Nocera in ...

The spiky, iconic Canadian maple leaf. A large, lush Florida palm leaf. Thin aspen leaves rustling in the crisp Colorado air. You can probably recall many different leaf shapes from many different ...

Fake plants can be a great solution for homes with curious little ones or pets and a decent alternative for apartments with little natural light—but it’s fair to say that going for fake over real ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned to Mother Nature for inspiration, inventing a device that mimics photosynthesis, the process plants use to convert sunlight and ...

About the shape of a poker card but thinner, ... In laboratory studies, he showed that an artificial leaf prototype could operate continuously for at least 45 hours without a drop in activity.

The preference of Heliconius butterflies for certain leaf shapes is innate, ... Here, Dell'Aglio and colleagues use artificial flowers and leaves, made out of foam sheet, ...

Harvard Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Makes Alcohol, Could Become Fuel. Published: 6 Jun 2016, 16:56 UTC • By: Sebastian Toma. 1 photo. ... and it has the shape of a jar.

Butterflies use differences in leaf shape to distinguish between plants. Frontiers. Journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution DOI 10.3389/fevo.2016.00081 ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into ethanol and propanol. These so-called ‘drop-in ...

To find out which leaf shapes led to leaves falling closest to their tree, the pair built an automated device that could shed 100 artificial leaves, made of paper, inside a water tank.