What’s the opposite of a “green thumb”? You. After flubbing a forest’s worth of ficuses and killing countless cacti, it’s time to get some help with this whole indoor gardening thing. The Koubachi ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University professor has built an innovative handheld sensor that gives plant scientists and farmers a more precise way of measuring the health of crops while gathering ...

Edyn, a company developed by ecologist Jason Aramburu, aims to make gardening an enjoyable experience for everyone. To that end, it has invented a sensor that aims to take the guesswork out of the ...

RALEIGH – Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a patch that plants can “wear” to monitor continuously for plant diseases or other stresses, such as crop damage or extreme ...

Scientists are developing graphene-based, sensors-on-tape that can be attached to plants and can provide data to researchers and farmers about water use in crops. The technology could have many other ...

Oso Technologies' PlantLink is hoping to usher your garden into the Internet of things. The $79 package consists of a "Basestation" that you can attach to your Wi-Fi router, and a moisture sensor ...

If like me your plants could do with a little help to stay alive, you might be interested in a new planned water sensor aptly named SmartyPlants. Which can help you keep your plants healthy by ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Using a pair of sensors made from carbon nanotubes, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have discovered signals that reveal when ...

Tattoos on crops? Absolutely. Want to know how much water a corn plant is guzzling or how fast a soybean plant is drinking? Stick on a tattoo and get an instant answer from a wearable plant sensor. A ...