Don Kinzler writes: "Premoistening mix is important because the ingredients in the growing mixes are dry and they’re often difficult to rewet." ...

Orchids take center-stage at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory for a local club’s weekend-long showcase and a month-long exhibit.

While there are plenty of commercial houseplant mixes available, it's easy to make your own snake plant potting mix. Not only ...

If you’re a gardener, chances are you’ve come across more than one person who had a nice garden potting bench. You probably know how convenient they can be. You can use them as a quick and easy place ...

Potting soils typically contain a high percentage of bulky organic materials such as bark, wood chips, peat or coconut coir, compost and various types of animal excrement such as manure ...

Diffusion generation process for a stable crystalline material having a target band gap value (3 eV) using the MatterGen model. After a two-year postdoctoral stint at MIT’s Computer Science and ...

I'm watching a black disc of wonder material hovering over a bubbling bath of liquid nitrogen. "This is superconducting magnetic levitation," says magnet scientist Greg Brittles. "The closest you ...

A research team led by scientists at Northwestern University has developed the first-ever two-dimensional mechanically interlocked material with high flexibility and strength. In the future ...

New chainmail-like material could be the future of armor First 2D mechanically interlocked polymer exhibits exceptional flexibility and strength Date: January 16, 2025 Source: Northwestern ...

Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology.

A new study examines ways that carbon could be used as a key ingredient in building materials—particularly biomass plastics and cement. Obstacles still remain, as some of these technologies are ...