An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

Treated plants fight pests without the need for toxic pesticides, oozing a "larval toffee" that stunts tomato pinworms’ growth and attracts predators.

NASA research is revealing there's more to flowers than meets the human eye. A recent analysis of wildflowers in California ...

Seeding The Future Foundation and the Institute of Food Technologists are proud to announce the Grand Prize and Growth Grant semifinalists as well as the ...

NASA astronaut ... Production System ("Veggie") on the ISS, which cultivates fresh produce. Wilmore added a light meter to ...

Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but the Nasa astronauts ...

Nano-agrochemicals and nanomedicine are two areas of active research. While there are some distinct differences there are areas of overlap and lessons which can be learned. Here, the authors ...

NASA ultimately deemed it unsafe for their return journey, forcing the astronauts to stay aboard the ISS while alternative plans were made. Williams, now 59, has spent over 600 days in space across ...

If this experiment continues to succeed, it would unlock tremendous possibilities for growing a variety of food crops in space.

Soilless growing systems inside ... track changes in plant growth. In the study, the researchers tested their approach by monitoring baby bok choy, a leafy vegetable commonly called Chinese ...