The World's Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built in New Jersey
Nothing they are doing or planning is really new. What is interesting here, though, is just how big this place is.
Nothing they are doing or planning is really new. What is interesting here, though, is just how big this place is.
The reason is not that we’re growing more food. Food is just getting cheaper.
Termites are usually one of the banes of human existence as they feed on dead matter but they supersede humans in this one interesting way.
A new reports attempts to clear up the confusion by synthesising hundreds of existing research papers.
The world’s oldest axe—dating back at least 46,000 years—has been uncovered in Australia. And, already, there’s a mystery surrounding it.
It’s been thirty years since the Chernobyl disaster and radiation levels in plants seemed to have died down. So why are levels of radiation in milk still peaking?
Three of the world’s most troubling crop diseases were just hit with three new disease-resistant crops varieties, thanks to genetic modification.
The synthetic planting medium is a farming answer to radioactivity questions raised after the Tohoku earthquake of 2011.
Researchers have successfully grown crops harvested in Martian soil, but not a single one of them is a potato.
How big a difference can one degree really make? There’s a place in the world where we can already look at for an answer.
From watering seedlings to harvesting crops, robots will control nearly every aspect of this indoor lettuce production operation.
Producing 30,000 lettuces each day, under LED lighting.
Needless to say, something odd is happening to the seasons.
Eating food grown in space has been a long time coming, as we can see from this 1959 comic strip depicting the “space farmers” of the future.
The lettuce recently eaten on the ISS and that now grown in Tokyo's metro system share some interesting aspects.
It will grow 91,000 kilos of kale, rocket and romaine lettuce per year when it’s finished.
