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Using artificial intelligence to monitor and control existing technologies is likely to give birth to all manner of wondrous new devices in the near future and this indoor vegetable-growing machine is a prime example.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Food technology, AGWA, Food, Plants, Farming, Kitchen

Contrary to what has long been believed, there was no peaceful transition of power from hunter-gather societies to farming communities in Europe, with new advanced DNA analysis revealing that the newcomers slaughtered the existing population, completely wiping them out within a few generations.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: University of Lund, Hunting, Farming, DNA, Fossils, Archeology

There's been a takeover of North America's soil by scores of non-native earthworm species this past century. It's time we pay more attention to the invaders and their potentially major impact on the continent's ecosystem, says a new Stanford study.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Ecology, Animals, Stanford University, Farming

Herbicides were touted as ‘miracle’ chemicals when they changed farming practices forever in the late 1940s, but researchers are now desperate to find a more sustainable, soil-friendly and non-toxic way of wrangling weeds while promoting crop growth. Now, researchers out of China believes they've made a major breakthrough that could give wheat crops an eco-friendly future.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Wheat, Crops, Sustainable, Environmental, Farming

With an eye toward creating food for people with certain health conditions, scientists in Italy grew radish, pea, arugula, and Swiss chard plants, precisely controlling certain nutrients. And they did it without any soil.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTags: Farming, Crops, Vegetables, Nutrition, Diet, kidney

Chinese scientists have developed a cost-effective method of converting coal into protein, which they say could feed livestock much more efficiently than natural plants, while using a tiny fraction of the land.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Farming, Coal, Methanol, Protein