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In the 1940s, modern chemistry delivered new classes of man-made chemical pesticides that still are widely used today. These synthetic ...

I wrote a blog post [on August 2] that has generated tremendous pushback, including an op-ed in the New York Times as well as ...

.... [S]ending items into space is extremely expensive—about $10,000 a pound. Space dwellers will need to find a way to ...

Today’s DNA makers still create their products using chemistry. To form a new double helix, the individual letters of DNA ...

Could the body, in fighting against a pathogen, also be battling a tumor? After injecting bacteria into a patient who ...

The plant-based meat industry will need the millions of workers now employed in animal agriculture, the founder of Impossible Foods ...

In September 2019—two months before the first reported case of the coronavirus—the World Health Organization published a report that said, ...

[In 1965, a] group of researchers in England, led by Dr. David Tyrrell, was learning more about the common cold ...

You might call this a puff piece, because it’s about cotton that’s just as fluffy but more sustainable than the ...

Results from a controlled clinical trial from China on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 have shown ...

There’s an international research project called RIPE, short for Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency. The effort .... most recently has developed ...

Growing rice in the ocean sounds a little whacky, but ocean agriculture is an emerging form of food production that ...

There are, right now, four ways to search for alien life, ranging from the most passive to the most active ...

Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF Venture Capital, Roquette, Trendlines ...

This bacon is elusive. It doesn’t come from a pig. You can’t even buy it anymore. Maybe that’s because people ...

Traditional agriculture requires many inputs; fertilizer, specific chemicals, manual labor and water. Most of the water used in agriculture is ...

Do you know what’s in your weed? For the majority of cannabis consumers, the answer is a resounding no—despite claims ...

“There is so much misinformation out there,” said Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., the Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer at NYMC, ...

Even though no one has found any evidence that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are harmful, anti-GMO activists have  campaigned against ...

Panic is setting in about a potential french fry shortage in the near future, due to a poor potato harvest ...

Early this year, 85-year-old Bonipak Produce unleashed an orange, 8,000-pound autonomous robot upon its California vegetable fields. It was one ...

Are you slurping through a paper straw, searching for the next green product that will save the planet? Sorry to ...

Synthetic biology companies are already producing many of the ingredients found in personal care products using biosynthesis, the same basic ...

In 2016, the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen flew over the Amazon forest with the head of Greenpeace Brazil as part ...

[In June], President Trump signed an Executive Order to streamline the complex maze of rules and policies that regulate agricultural ...

Cow-free burgers are now all the rage — after Beyond Meats’ recent IPO, shares rose 163% on the first day ...

What were the lives of wild honey bees like before humans began intensively managing them and moving them all over ...

Crispr had no obvious relevance to human health when it was first described in 1987, but [Jennifer] Doudna, who won ...