1+ day, 15+ min ago   (618+ words) Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more seeds per hectare can raise yield potential and make fields better suited to…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (80+ words) A team of researchers at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad has shown that an ordinary kitchen staple, corn starch, can be transformed into a surprisingly capable solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries when it is combined with the right additives. In work…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (679+ words) A team of researchers in Peru has built a system that can fly a drone over a Hass avocado orchard and, in real time, tell a farmer not only where every visible fruit is hanging but also how ripe each…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (83+ words) Quinoa has earned its reputation as one of the most resilient and nutritious crops on the planet, thriving in salty soils, high altitudes and arid conditions while delivering a rare, complete plant protein. Yet the same ancient grain that feeds…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (90+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the fine chemical details of each grain — its antioxidants, its vitamins, its stress compounds — are shaped as much by what happens in the soil as by the plant’s own genetics. A new…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (524+ words) Every year, the world brews billions of cups of coffee, and almost all of the spent grounds end up in landfills, where they slowly decompose and release methane....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (55+ words) A humble molecule found in soybeans may hold the key to one of medicine’s most overlooked complications. Genistein, a naturally occurring isoflavone abundant in soy and soy-derived foods, has emerged as a strikingly versatile candidate against diabetic osteoporosis, a condition…...