Attack of the Interstellar Cometon December 17, 2020 at 10:00 pm

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The advance of science tends to deal cruelly with science-fiction stories anchored to older perspectives on the universe. Try watching…

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Doris Monica MuiaMaize farmerMachakos, Kenya This story is one of a series about how hidden innovations produce the foods we…

Dark spaces on the mapon December 18, 2020 at 11:51 am

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Once you entered the park, you hadn't been very careful about where you were going. Your daytime familiarity with the…

Finding the ground truth about crop yieldson December 18, 2020 at 11:52 am

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Joyce HelleEnumerator, National Association of State Departments of AgricultureWest Central Illinois This story is one of a series about how…

“He put QR-coded wristbands on each of the chickens”on December 18, 2020 at 11:52 am

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Q: The term "Sinofuturism" refers to concepts and aesthetics of a "Chinese future." It's been explored by artists, designers, and…

Blessed are the hungry? Not yeton December 18, 2020 at 11:55 am

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This reflects an evolution in Western food culture. If mid-20th-century advertisements extolled synthetic foods in garish colors, and television shows…

The kitchen of the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributedon December 18, 2020 at 11:55 am

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In the second half of the 20th century, the poster child of kitchen innovation was the microwave oven. Borrowing tech…

Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profiton December 18, 2020 at 11:55 am

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The shock of the virus's first wave exposed the inner workings of our interconnected system of food creation and delivery--and…

How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already knowon December 18, 2020 at 11:55 am

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One way to understand farming is as a never-ending hedge against the uncertainties that affect the bottom line: weather, disease,…

Your first lab-grown burger is coming soon–and it’ll be “blended”on December 18, 2020 at 11:55 am

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That's why some cultured-meat startups have turned their attention, for now, away from trying to reproduce an entire hunk of…