The markings, which appear on the outside of the fruit, are the result of a virus. They are safe to eat, even if they do look pretty weird.

Scientists decoded DNA from millennia-old lentils preserved in volcanic rock silos on Gran Canaria. The findings show that today’s Canary Island lentils largely descend from varieties brought from ...

As global temperatures rise, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists work to grow stronger, more resilient crops. Yet ...

Two reasons new GOI rules for factory hiring won’t produce full impact: retrenchment is still constrained by firm size & too much bureaucracy will be involved in deciding multiple minimum wages ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

For many years the IRS in Publication 225 (The Farmers Tax Guide) had indicated that farmers could not elect to defer crop insurance proceeds to the following year for revenue protection (RP) policies ...

The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

We know what you’re thinking: what is crop rotation? Well, it’s as simple as it sounds. Crop rotation is the practice of rotating crops belonging to specific groups around a vegetable bed from year to ...

A Kentucky farmer will spend 3 1/2 years in prison for his role in defrauding the federal government of more than $5 million in a crop fraud scheme. David Hunt, of Taylor County, was sentenced Nov. 17 ...

The race to unlock the secret of a longer life is officially on - and two brilliant millennial sisters in a Cambridge lab might be closer than anyone else. Show more The race to unlock the secret of a ...

If constantly being mogged by sigmas has you feeling like a fuhuhluhtoogan, and you have no idea what any of that means, you've come to the right place. This glossary aims to define and explain ...