Climate change is affecting what we eat, from making crops less productive to making foods less nutritious. Scientists are studying how farmers can adapt.
‘Tarzan’ the robot saves energy by swinging. Someday, it could help with farm work by moving along wires strung across fields of crops.
New research shows how to store eggs, insulate homes with chicken feathers and slow fires with shells.
Millions of wild pigs roam North America, causing billions of dollars in damage every year. Scientists are looking for new ways to stop the swine.
Scientists create stick-on 'plant tattoo.' It measures how efficiently crops use water, a key to better identifying breeding stock for more drought-resistant crops.
Chocolate is made from the pods of the cacao tree. To reproduce this plant quickly for research, scientists use clones.
Robots are now being introduced into all phases of how food is grown and prepared. In the future, though, they will be common.
Two elements — nitrogen and phosphorus — help plants grow. When the soil doesn’t have them, farmers might add them in the form of fertilizer.
Domestication is the process of deliberately taking a wild organism — a plant or animal for instance — and making it a part of our daily lives.