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These techies want to use the internet in the fight climate change, right alongside solar panels and urban farms.
A new study shows that sunspot activity has not, in fact, increased in recent decades.
It's a SAD lamp, but for tomatoes.
Food companies take ridiculous measures to protect their secrets, but now they’re beginning to see the benefits of cooperating and sharing information.
British researchers tried to engineer a kind of wheat that would repel bugs without need for insecticide. They failed, but they still learned a lot.
The reason that your commute is such a nonstop wonder-rollercoaster has to do with chaos theory. Go figure!
A warming world is threatening the partnership of long-tongued bees and long-tubed flowers.
"We just had to hold them in our hands and hope the glue dried quickly" and other adventures in bee science.
A small factory town on the edge of downtown Los Angeles is inventing a new way for overpolluted communities to clean themselves up.