While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and the Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council (INREC) today announced a new, three-year Nitrogen Soil Sampling Project that will conduct nitrogen soil ...

A farmer asked me to look at one of his alfalfa fields that had very uneven growth. This field included several high areas, and that’s where the alfalfa was stunted with some signs of yellowing. We ...

When potted plants like geranium or calibrachoa grow lush foliage and bloom profusely, this is in large part thanks to high-quality, pest- and disease-free potting soil, also referred to as potting ...

(Indianapolis, IN) – The Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA), in partnership with organizations statewide and the Gulf Hypoxia Program (GHP), is reopening its no‑cost initiative to expand ...

The Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) has reopened its no-cost soil sampling initiative as part of Indiana's Mississippi River Basin Soil Sampling Program. This program, in collaboration ...

Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight Ramsha Waseem - Freelance writer Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher ...

The larvae feed on the leaves of elm trees in a distinctive zigzag pattern. Gyorgy Csoka via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0 An invasive wasp is wreaking havoc on elms across the United States—and ...

The objective of this research was to establish soil patterns and foliar standards for clonal crops of cocoa CCN51 and PS1319 in the Atlantic regions within the northern Espírito Santo and southern ...

Across the globe, soil compaction is becoming an ever more serious challenge. Heavy vehicles and machinery in modern agriculture compress the soil to such an extent that crops struggle to grow. In ...