Zarah Pattison receives funding from NERC, UKRI. A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species – or “monster ...

Karen Joan Esler receives funding from the Centre for Invasion Biology, the Water Research Commission and Anglo American (Anglo American Nature Positive Grant). Tony Rebelo received funding from IUCN ...

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...