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Saltwater isn't something most people associate with English farmland. But in parts of eastern England, it's becoming a growing problem, not just for crops but for farm incomes too.

Mohd Mustaquim The three-day Dryland Congress 2026 concluded in New Delhi with a strong call for greater South–South and triangular cooperation to accelerate solutions for dryland agriculture. The final day … The post Dryland Congress 2026 Calls for Science, Innovation and Partnerships to Transform Drylands appeared first on Agriculture Post.

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Most men may be missing an important dietary clue about prostate cancer. A new survey found that only 20% knew research has linked dairy consumption with increased prostate cancer risk, while 66% said they would consider avoiding dairy after learning about the connection. Studies have also associated plant-based diets with substantially lower risks of prostate cancer, progression, and recurrence.

Maize is one of the hungriest crops on the planet, demanding enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to fill its kernels each season. Yet much of that nitrogen never reaches the grain. It leaks into rivers as nitrate, escapes into the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, and lingers in soil as a latent pollutant. A new two-year […]

Every year, millions of tonnes of mango seeds are discarded as waste after the fruit is processed for juice, pulp, and dried products. In Nigeria alone, one of the world’s largest mango producers, the kernels inside those seeds pile up at dumping sites, an untapped reservoir of oil and lignocellulosic fiber. A new study published […]

Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing in the journal Advanced Biotechnology, a team led by Yaoxing Li and corresponding author Chenyang […]

Transgenic technology has quietly reshaped agriculture across the world since the mid-1990s, moving desirable genes into crop plants across the barriers of sexual compatibility and, in doing so, accelerating the development of new cultivars beyond what conventional breeding alone can achieve. A new review published in the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding examines […]

Cadmium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in the world’s farmland, and in China it has become a quiet but persistent threat to the food supply. The toxic heavy metal, which enters soils through mining, smelting, industrial emissions, and phosphate fertilizers, accumulates readily in wheat grain, a staple consumed daily by more than a […]

Every year, humanity swallows roughly 35,000 metric tons of aspirin, and much of it does not simply vanish after doing its job. A sweeping new review published in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry argues that one of the world’s oldest and most heavily consumed medicines has become one of its most pervasive aquatic pollutants, […]

Butter cookies may be about to get a structural makeover that could reshape how the baking industry thinks about healthier fats. A new study published in Current Research in Food Science shows that a bigel built from phytosterols, gamma-oryzanol and sodium alginate can be blended into commercial vegetable butter and progressively rebuild the way fat […]

On Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, the cashew tree has long been more than a crop; it is a livelihood anchor for tens of thousands of rural households. Yet the nut that once sustained Kilifi County’s farm economy is in trouble. New research published in the journal Discover Agriculture quantifies a quiet crisis and points to […]

Beneath every harvest in the United States lies an intricate microscopic economy, one that most consumers never see but every farmer depends upon. Andi Jilling, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, has dedicated her research career to understanding that hidden world. Now, with […]

As global temperatures climb and weather patterns grow increasingly erratic, scientists are turning their attention to some of the smallest organisms on Earth as potential saviors of the world’s food supply. A new thematic collection published in the journal Discover Plants argues that the intricate relationships between plants and their associated microorganisms may represent one […]

Deep in the steaming runoff channels of Taiwan’s hot springs, a group of microbes has been quietly rewriting the rules of photosynthesis. These are the far-red light-utilizing cyanobacteria, or FRLCyano, organisms capable of extending oxygenic photosynthesis beyond the visible spectrum by deploying specialized chlorophylls and remodelled light-harvesting machinery. A new study led by Ying-Yang Li […]

Wheat may owe part of its hidden armor to an unlikely ally growing beside it. A new glasshouse study published in Plant and Soil shows that when wheat plants share a pot with chickpea, they accumulate significantly more silicon in their leaves and stems than wheat grown alone or next to another wheat plant. The […]

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the fine chemical details of each grain — its antioxidants, its vitamins, its stress compounds — are shaped as much by what happens in the soil as by the plant’s own genetics. A new field study from the Panjin region of Liaoning Province, one of China’s most […]

A weed that rice farmers have long regarded as little more than a nuisance for yield and herbicide budgets has now been caught playing a far more consequential role in the field. Chinese sprangletop (Leptochloa chinensis), a fast-colonizing grass that thrives in rice paddies across Asia, has been identified as a previously unrecognized natural host […]

Researchers in South Africa have identified seven non-pathogenic fungal species that can transform agricultural waste into mycelium-based biomaterials with properties that rival, and in some respects exceed, those grown on costly commercial media. The study, published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, systematically screened fungal isolates for their ability to form dense, cohesive mycelial networks and […]

Across the wheat, rice, and mustard fields of Lucknow district in northern India, the soil beneath farmers’ feet is not a static foundation but a shifting, seasonal system. A two-year study of agricultural soils in this corner of the Indo-Gangetic Plain has now documented, in unusually fine detail, how the dramatic swings between monsoon downpours […]

Despite a decade of breathless headlines about artificial intelligence, agricultural robots, and fully autonomous farms, the berries, avocados, oranges, and tomatoes stacked in market stalls around the world are still harvested, in the overwhelming majority of cases, by human hands. A new perspective published in the journal Smart Agricultural Technology argues that this is not […]

Every year, farms and food-processing plants generate staggering volumes of straw, husks, stalks, manure, and processing residues, much of which rots away or is burned. These materials are rich in energy, but for the microbes that convert organic matter into methane inside anaerobic digesters, they are often maddeningly inaccessible. The reason lies in lignin, a […]

Every farmer, grain trader, and food security planner in Europe knows the fear that hangs over a hot, dry summer. The catastrophic growing seasons of 2003 and 2018 showed how compound heat and drought can slash yields across entire continents, and climate projections suggest such shocks will become more frequent and more intense. Yet the […]

A sweeping new review published in BMC Agriculture argues that the future of climate-smart farming may lie not in a single miracle microbe, but in the intricate web of relationships that microbes build with one another beneath the surface of our fields. The work, led by Zaryab Shafi and Pramod Kumar Sahu of ICAR-National Bureau […]

Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the rules of farming, and one of the most consequential shifts is happening not in the cloud but in the fields themselves. A new systematic literature review published in Smart Agricultural Technology maps, for the first time, how distributed machine learning is being deployed across precision agriculture, synthesizing evidence from […]

In the steep, rain-washed valleys of the northwestern Himalayas, a quiet contest is underway beneath farmers’ feet. A new field study from the Rohru region of Himachal Pradesh, India, shows that the way land is used — whether under annual crops, apple orchards, mixed apple-and-crop agroforestry, or left barren — leaves a deep and measurable […]

A humble byproduct of bioethanol fermentation, long relegated to low-value disposal, could soon find itself blended into the world’s fuel tanks. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown that fusel oil, the mixture of higher alcohols that distillers skim off during ethanol production, can be transformed almost completely into levulinate esters—compounds prized as green […]

A sweeping analysis of India’s plant variety protection records has revealed a remarkable story of grassroots innovation: individual farmers, not corporations or government research institutions, are the country’s most prolific registrants of new plant varieties. Researchers from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the ICAR-Central Citrus Research Institute have carried out an empirical meta-analysis […]

Farmers have long faced a stubborn trade-off: till the soil deeply enough to loosen compacted layers and boost root growth, and you risk destroying the delicate structure that makes soil fertile in the first place. Now a pair of researchers reports that this trade-off may not be inevitable. In a study published in Discover Soil, […]

The world’s staple grains may be on the verge of an identity change. Rice, maize and wheat, crops that have long been valued almost exclusively for their starch and protein, are emerging as promising biological factories for some of the most valuable lipids on the planet: heart-protective omega-3 fatty acids, industrial wax esters, and even […]

High on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, the world’s most extensive alpine grasslands are quietly losing their ability to heal themselves. For decades, land managers have assumed that simply fencing off overgrazed pastures and letting nature take its course would be enough to bring degraded rangelands back to life. A new study published in the journal Plant […]

Beneath the endless ribbons of highway that cross China’s eastern coastal plains lies a problem as old as civil engineering itself: soft, waterlogged soil that squirms under load. When engineers on the Jiangsu expansion of the Beijing–Shanghai Expressway needed to build a three-meter-high embankment across deep, compressible mud, they turned to an increasingly celebrated hybrid […]

Brazil sits at the heart of the global bioethanol economy, cultivating more than eight million hectares of sugarcane to supply renewable fuel for domestic consumption and export markets. As worldwide demand for low-carbon energy intensifies, researchers face a pressing question: can the world’s largest sugarcane industry keep expanding its productivity while simultaneously protecting the health […]

Researchers in Mexico have shown that the root-like network of the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, can bind a range of forestry and farm by-products into lightweight, biodegradable materials strong enough for protective packaging. The study, published in Polymer Bulletin, systematically compared five composite formulations built from wood chips of Quercus castanea, sawdust, and corn cob, […]

A sweeping synthesis of more than a quarter-century of research has concluded that biochar, the charcoal-like material produced by heating organic waste in the absence of oxygen, could become one of the most powerful tools available to Mediterranean farmers facing a warming, drying climate. The review, published in the journal Crop Health, pulls together peer-reviewed […]

A quiet revolution is unfolding across the world’s farmland, one articulated arm and autonomous wheel at a time. A new state-of-the-art review published in the International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications takes stock of how robotics is reshaping agriculture, from the strawberry rows of Japan to the wheat belt of China, and delivers a […]

The future of two of humanity’s oldest crops may depend on secrets buried in their deepest genetic past. In a study published in Molecular Plant, researchers led by teams at INRAE (the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) reconstructed ancestral ‘founder’ genomes that are more than 200 million years old, and then […]

Cocoa has long been the backbone of rural Ghana, supporting more than 800,000 smallholder households and anchoring a substantial share of national export earnings and gross domestic product. Yet the sector is quietly in trouble. Yields across many districts have stagnated at roughly 300 to 600 kilograms per hectare, far below the attainable 800 to […]

Deep in the foothills of the Western Carpathians in southern Poland, a quiet agricultural landscape is rewriting what scientists know about biodiversity hotspots in Europe’s vanishing semi-natural meadows. A new study conducted in the Wielopolka catchment, a 484-square-kilometer river basin in the Strzyżów Foothills, has revealed that the extraordinary plant diversity of these submontane valleys […]

Insects navigate their world largely through smell, relying on an intricate array of chemosensory proteins to detect everything from host plant volatiles to mating signals. Among these molecular sentinels are ionotropic receptors, or IRs, a family of receptors descended from ionotropic glutamate receptors that detect volatile acids, amines, and even non-chemical cues such as humidity […]

A single irrigation sensor can mean the difference between a thriving field and a thirsty one, but new research suggests that the same sensor reading may tell two entirely different stories depending on the soil it is buried in. In a study published in the journal Discover Soil, researchers José O. Payero and Selvaraj Selvalakshmi […]

In the semi-arid heartlands of central Tanzania, goats are more than livestock; they are walking savings accounts, insurance policies against drought, and often the only buffer between a rural household and financial disaster. Yet a comprehensive new survey of 450 goat-keeping households in the Dodoma region reveals a striking paradox: farmers trust these hardy animals […]

Bacteriophages, the viruses that hunt and kill bacteria, are edging closer to becoming practical weapons against two of the world’s most damaging crop diseases. In a new study published in Microbial Biotechnology, researchers report the systematic design of a phage-based biocontrol product that targets the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora and the black rot pathogen […]

Beneath every rice paddy and wheat field lies an intricate economy of organisms, from bacteria and fungi to nematodes, mites, springtails, potworms and earthworms, all connected through chains of consumption and decomposition that determine how nutrients cycle and how fertile the soil remains. A new long-term study from China now offers one of the most […]

A team of researchers has unveiled a machine learning framework capable of predicting one of the most important properties of biochar with remarkable precision, potentially transforming how scientists and industry engineers design carbon-rich materials for agriculture and environmental cleanup. The study, published in Current Research in Biotechnology, demonstrates that an optimized Gradient Boosting Decision Tree […]

Cotton is far more than a crop in Benin. It anchors the national economy, accounts for roughly 90 percent of agricultural exports, contributes about 35 percent of export earnings, and provides income for nearly three million people. By 2019, Benin had become the leading cotton producer in West Africa’s Franc Zone, anchoring what researchers describe […]

Raw meat-based diets, often marketed under labels such as BARF or biologically appropriate raw food, have moved from a fringe feeding philosophy to a mainstream segment of the pet food market. A new critical narrative review published in Discover Animals examines what the scientific evidence actually shows about these diets, and its conclusions resist the […]

Deep in the soils of Brazil’s coffee heartland, a quiet revolution is brewing. Researchers at the Federal University of Viçosa and the Federal Institute of Espírito Santo have recovered dozens of native bacterial strains from Arabica coffee farms that can fix atmospheric nitrogen, dissolve insoluble phosphorus, and produce natural plant hormones—three traits that together could […]

Cultured meat, once a science-fiction curiosity, has matured into one of the most closely watched frontiers in food technology, and a comprehensive new review published in Discover Biotechnology offers the most balanced assessment yet of whether it can truly deliver on its promises. The review, led by Roshini Singh of Amity University Uttar Pradesh together […]

Millets have long been dismissed as orphan crops, overshadowed by maize, rice and wheat in research funding and genomic attention. Yet as climate change intensifies droughts, heatwaves and soil salinization across the world’s most vulnerable agricultural regions, these small-seeded cereals are being re-evaluated as some of the most promising crops of the twenty-first century. A […]

A new systematic review and meta-analysis has delivered the first quantitative verdict on one of agriculture’s most tantalizing nanomaterials: metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, the ultra-porous crystalline compounds being repurposed as smart fertilizers. The analysis, published in BMC Agriculture, finds that MOF-based nanofertilizers significantly improve crop yield, nutrient uptake, kernel traits, and even pathogen suppression under […]

India’s diets remain dominated by rice and wheat, and the nutritional consequences are now starkly quantified. A new review published in Discover Agriculture argues that a largely forgotten reservoir of indigenous plants could help close one of the country’s most stubborn nutrition gaps. The study, led by Vaishnavi Tamma and Prayagha Ramesh Kumar with EeVon […]

MASON, Ohio — American agriculture is short on hands and long on acres. Farmers and ranchers now lean on artificial intelligence and smart systems to close that gap, from autosteering tractors to sensor-driven barns. The technology already works the land in more ways than most producers realize, and the reach keeps growing. The Labor Squeeze […] The post How AI and Smart Systems Can Reduce Strain From Labor Shortages in the Agricultural Industry appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Gotu kola, the humble creeping herb known scientifically as Centella asiatica, has quietly become one of the most sought-after plants on the planet. Its leaves contain a family of triterpenoid saponins called centellosides—including asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic acid—that drive wound healing, neuroprotection, and antioxidant defenses. The cosmetics industry alone has built a market […]

The transition to climate-neutral agriculture is one of the most consequential undertakings of the twenty-first century, and a new analysis published in npj Sustainable Agriculture argues that the tools society uses to plan that transition matter as much as the technologies and policies behind it. The study examines how strategic foresight, a structured family of […]

Packaging already tells us where food comes from, when it was made, what's in it and how many calories it contains. But researchers see a future where packaging can "see," in real time, what's happening inside and translate that into information that producers and consumers can act on.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Editing a plant’s genes is only half the battle. Before a new, improved trait can ever reach a farmer’s field, scientists must be able to grow a whole plant from just a few edited cells — a process that can be slow, unreliable and, for some plant species, impossible. A new […] The post New Gene-Editing Tool Speeds Regeneration of Hard-To-Breed Perennial Crops appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — The Kansas Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for the FY27 Crop & Livestock Research Grant Program. Funds for the program are appropriated to the agency by the Kansas Legislature from the State Water Plan Fund. The state’s Crop & Livestock Research Grant Program has developed over the years to support research efforts […] The post KDA Announces Crop & Livestock Research Grant Opportunity appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Scientists in Australia have developed a robust and reproducible genetic transformation system for Brassica carinata, an ancient East African oilseed that is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising non-food feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. The new protocol, described in the journal Plant Molecular Biology, delivers stable transformation efficiencies of at […]

Beneath the ploughed surface of the world’s croplands lies a carbon reservoir that climate scientists have long overlooked. While decades of research have focused on soil organic carbon — the decomposed remnants of plants and microbes — a new twelve-year field experiment in China suggests that deep soil layers may be quietly locking away vast […]

Commitment aims to support the growth of winter canola in the Southern Great Plains of the U.S., as a feedstock for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel. The post Bayer and Neste Close Commercial Agreement to Jointly Scale Newgold Winter Canola for Biofuels Production appeared first on CropLife.

JV to amplify both companies' complementary expertise to develop, scale, deliver differentiated crop protection solutions in high-growth markets. The post Corteva, Globachem Form a Joint Venture to Advance Development, Commercialization of New Formulated Crop Protection Solutions appeared first on CropLife.

Proactive approach prevents costly insect infestations that eat away at grain volume, quality and value. The post Central Life Sciences Introduces Customizable Grain Protection Protocol to Defend Profit Potential of Stored Grain appeared first on CropLife.

Who isn't familiar with the colorful coral reefs from movies like "Finding Nemo" or "The Little Mermaid"? Unfortunately, the reality is often quite different, as these vital ecosystems are under pressure worldwide. Climate change and pollution are causing corals to bleach and die. Even the most resilient coral reefs of the United States are now threatened.

Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning.

From SciENMAG Science News Desk — Agricultural AI Seeing Ripeness Through Smart Glasses: Lightweight AI Brings Real-Time Harvest Decisions to Cherry Tomato Fields In greenhouses where cherry tomatoes hang in dense, multi-colored clusters, the difference between a perfectly timed harvest and a costly one can come down to subtle shifts in skin color that human […]

"Venture still runs on trust, taste, ambition, and contact with the physical world, and AI raises the price of that judgment." The post How AgFunder is using AI to build a venture firm that remembers appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Two newly published studies from Trinity College Dublin scientists raise significant concerns about the use of agricultural fungicides.That is because they show fungicides can rapidly drive soil microbes to evolve multidrug resistance to clinically important drugs and, when combined with warmer temperatures, disrupt soil microbes in ways that negatively affect plant growth.

On a recent episode of the AgNet News Hour, the conversation covered both the current California almond season and a new approach to protecting high-value crops from birds and other ... Read More The post Almond Harvest Updates and New Technology to Protect California Crops appeared first on AgNet West.

The 60,000-sq-m Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) has opened to the public in China’s Jiangsu province, designed by ARTS Group, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Shuishi and Via.inc on the… The post New Suzhou art gallery inspired by traditional gardens appeared first on Global Construction Review.

Microplastics are now everywhere in the environment, from the deepest ocean trenches to the soil beneath our feet, and scientists are racing to develop reliable ways to find and measure them. A persistent problem in this effort has been a blind spot at the very heart of the analytical process: most laboratory tests used to […]

Researchers in southern China have reported the first molecular detection and genetic characterization of two enteric unicellular microorganisms—Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Blastocystis—in farmed chukar partridges (Alectoris chukar), a finding that adds a new bird species to the growing list of potential reservoir hosts for pathogens of public health concern. The study, published in Acta Parasitologica, surveyed […]

arXiv:2609.11766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced crop monitoring inside greenhouses is becoming one of the primary objectives of research centers. High-performance sensors, such as LiDAR or stereo cameras, have traditionally been employed for this purpose, though these often have a high cost. This work proposes a Visual-SLAM system using a monocular camera, which is significantly more cost-effective and specifically tailored for agricultural applications, such as mapping tomato crops in a greenhouse. Tests were carried out on a real tomato bunch, located in the Agroconnect experimental greenhouse. A ROS 2 Humble node was developed to run on the robot in order to capture images of these crops, which were then stored for offline processing. To generate a 3D mapped model for the crop in the greenhouse, the GLOMAP mapper, based on Structure-From-Motion, was integrated with the Hierarchical Localization toolbox. This initial mapping is a foundation for future, more advanced

arXiv:2609.11445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robot deployment requires online failure monitoring, yet existing monitors mainly derive risk from proxy signals or train dedicated monitoring components. We ask whether the internal predictive states of a frozen pretrained robotic world model already contain directly decodable failure information. Failure-Aware Readout from World Models (FARM) trains only a 33,985-parameter supervised readout over frozen VLA-JEPA predictive states, producing step-wise failure scores and causal trajectory risk. Five-fold out-of-fold evaluation across seven source tasks reaches 85.68/88.59 pooled AUROC/AUPRC, and FARM gives the best Seen performance among 15 matched baselines on the 10-task benchmark. Across four real-robot populations on PIPER X, SO-101, and Franka, fixed-readout transfer and readout-only adaptation test deployment shifts without updating the predictive backbone. FARM also discriminates failures from partial causal histories and

In a sweeping systematic review that reads like a botanical map of Himalayan women’s health, researchers have catalogued 395 plant species drawn from 117 families and 298 genera that Nepalese communities have long used to treat gynecological disorders. The study, published in Plant Biosystems, applied the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) […]

Every year, billions of liters of used frying oil are poured down drains, dumped into landfills, or collected at considerable expense by waste management companies. A new study published in the journal Discover Industrial Chemistry and Materials suggests that this greasy nuisance could become a genuinely useful energy resource, thanks to a bacterial enzyme immobilized […]

Hydroponics has long been one of plant science’s most valuable workhorses. Growing plants with their roots suspended in carefully formulated nutrient solutions allows researchers to watch root development unfold in real time, apply treatments with surgical precision, and sidestep the stubborn variability of soil. Yet for all its advantages, hydroponic cultivation has often remained a […]

Smallholder wheat farmers in Northwestern Ethiopia are selling just over half of their harvest, according to a new study that offers one of the most detailed portraits yet of how close, and how far, the region’s staple-crop agriculture remains from full market integration. The research, published in BMC Agriculture, surveyed 395 wheat-producing households across the […]

The global poultry industry stands at a critical crossroads as antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to render once-reliable antibiotics ineffective against dangerous pathogens. A comprehensive new review published in Veterinary Medicine and Science examines how medicinal plants could become the cornerstone of poultry health management in the emerging post-antibiotic era, offering a promising alternative that aligns […]

Agricultural soils around the world carry a hidden burden that has been accumulating for decades. Persistent pesticides, legacy organochlorine compounds, triazine herbicides, and toxic metals such as cadmium, lead, and arsenic have seeped into the ground through intensive agrochemical use, moving through soil pore networks, dissolving into soil water, and ultimately contaminating groundwater and crops. […]

Microalgae have long been heralded as one of the most promising feedstocks for the renewable fuels of the future, but anyone who has spent time in an algal cultivation facility knows how quickly optimism can turn to frustration. Open ponds and photobioreactors are living ecosystems, and living ecosystems get invaded. When a contaminating organism slips […]

UK gardens took a battering this summer as a heat dome settled over western Europe, and much of the green and pleasant land turned a dusty beige.

Editing a plant's genes is only half the battle. Before a new, improved trait can ever reach a farmer's field, scientists must be able to grow a whole plant from just a few edited cells—a process that can be slow, unreliable and, for some plant species, impossible.

A journalist, he was the first Japanese person to enter space, joining a Soviet crew as part of a spectacular $35 million ratings stunt in 1990.

Researchers have unveiled a lithium-ion battery separator that pairs the workhorse durability of polypropylene with the rapid biodegradability of poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate), better known as PBAT, and manufactured it using an industrial gravure printing process. The study, published in the Journal of Materials Science: Polymers, reports that the printed, chain-extended PBAT–polypropylene membrane achieves an ionic conductivity […]

DJI drones that already supply Mount Everest camps assist Nepal’s flood relief.

Researchers from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology's (SMART) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group, alongside collaborators from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), and institutions in the United States, Poland and France, have discovered aminovaleramididine synthetase (AvaS), the first identified pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme responsible for producing a chemical modification linked to how bacteria respond to metabolic stress.

China’s GEAIR 2.0 humanoid robot pollinates tomato flowers in under 10 seconds, combining AI, robotics and gene editing for crop breeding and farm automation. The post China’s GEAIR 2.0 Robot Pollinates Crops in Under 10 Seconds appeared first on TechRepublic.

If you want to drum up support for environmental action, putting climate change front and center may not always be the best strategy. A new study by Aya Takagi and Ryosuke Nakadai of Yokohama National University suggests that support for policies that emphasize biodiversity conservation, including conservation measures that also contribute to climate goals, may be less divided along cultural lines than measures explicitly associated with climate change.

Wars harm species and ecosystems and erode biodiversity conservation institutions and support. Given that environmental protection is essential for long-term peace and security, biodiversity conservation should not be abandoned in times of crisis. Scientists and the international community should work to monitor ecological damage and incorporate conservation into diplomatic resolutions to conflicts.

Apple orchard robots are being developed by researchers at Cornell University to take on some of the most labor-intensive tasks in apple production. The four-year, $7.5 million USDA-funded project will explore ... Read More The post Apple Orchard Robots Target Labor Challenges appeared first on AgNet West.

Innovations often completely transform systems of production. The invention of production lines transformed automobile manufacturing. The innovation of cellphones transformed people’s ability to communicate. Similarly, … The post Continuous Cropping and GM Crops Improve Soil Health appeared first on SAIFood.

Knip is not competing with bulk proteins used in animal feed such as soy and fishmeal, says CEO Caitlin Wege. The post Knip bets on postbiotics, not commodity protein, as it scales biomass fermentation appeared first on AgFunderNews.

In drought-prone regions of Ethiopia, growing more food could start with something as simple as keeping more rainwater in the ground.

Green manure could be one of the most underused tools in the fight against soil degradation, according to a comprehensive new review that synthesizes decades of research on the practice in Bangladesh and around the world. The study, published in the journal Discover Agriculture, argues that incorporating fast-growing plants such as dhaincha, sunn hemp, and […]

A family of nanoparticles—tiny, biodegradable molecules commonly used to deliver drugs to patients—shows promise in treating Alzheimer's disease without additional medication, according to new research from a University of Alberta neuroscientist.