Tag: Agriculture

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Many species of ground-dwelling beetles, ladybugs, hoverflies, damsel bugs, spiders and ...

Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. -When pigs get hit with significant illnesses during key stages of pregnancy, their immune ...

FAU Bioethicist Offers Plausible Solutions to Mitigate Zoonotic Risk from Agriculture and Food Production for Public HealthCredit: Adam Bernstein As ...

Credit: Maria Fernanda Maioli Popcorn. What would movies and sporting events without this salty, buttery snack? America's love for this ...

Credit: Penn State Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a robotic mechanism for mushroom picking and ...

First used to soak up oil in water, new sponge sequesters excess phosphate from waterCredit: Northwestern University Phosphate pollution in ...

Experiments aboard include studying how water bears tolerate space, whether microgravity affects symbiotic relationships, analyzing the formation of kidney stones, ...

Similar trends are seen around the worldCredit: Sebastian Heilpern A new study of dozens of wild fish species commonly consumed ...

Scientists confirm that certain insect larvae host bacteria that help shut down plant defense mechanismsCredit: Professor Gen-ichiro Arimura, Tokyo University ...

New fungus strain could provide a chemical-free method to help honey beesCredit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. -- A new ...

Credit: John Innes Centre Urgent investment in new tools is needed to address major global losses of wheat crops which ...

Doug Hayes honored by the American Oil Chemists' SocietyCredit: Photo courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A researcher and professor in ...

The loss of genetic diversity is a crisis tied to mass species extinctions and climate change; it could be just ...

Credit: John McLaughlin Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), also known as scab, is a significant disease of small grain cereals, such ...