Space berries!
Purdue University researchers have devised a menu for a mission to Mars (or further) – fresh strawberries grown in space: Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, […]
agronomy
Terror from the farm.
Johns Hopkins University is unleashing a wave of… no, wait. It’s farms. Johns Hopkins is just warning about it. Farms, however, are unleashing a wave […]
Waterproof sand brings promise of new life.
PhysOrg, ready for a day on the beach, reports that nanotech engineers have created waterproof sand. They expect to use it to make the world’s […]
The Vertical Farm
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page […]
If a potato can power a clock…
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree […]