In dozens of archaeological discoveries around the world, from the once-successful reservoirs and canals of Angkor Wat in Cambodia to the deserted Viking colonies of Greenland, new evidence paints ...

Humans have physically reconfigured half of the world’s land to grow just eight staple crops: maize (corn), soy, wheat, rice, cassava, sorghum, sweet potato and potato. They account for the vast ...

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. “Molecular farming started out with transgenic plants,” said Rybicki. Scientists developed several strategies to produce transgenic ...

What if the future of farming didn’t involve sprawling fields or endless rows of crops under the open sky? What if the solution to feeding a growing global population lay not in expanding farmland but ...