Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice of agriculture is intimately tied to the development of society, while ...

Seeds were sent to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to the International Space Station. Wagner Vendrame University of Florida Something important for a Florida facing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers are interested in potential genetic mutations from exposure to cosmic radiation, but ultimately plan to make wine from ...

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens. On ...

LAGOS (Reuters) -A staple of Nigerian cuisine, egusi soup, could one day be consumed on the Moon or on Mars after melon seeds from which the thick, fragrant dish is made orbited the Earth for seven ...

If Earthlings are ever going to colonize Mars, they won't be able to do so on an empty stomach—and Temidayo Oniosun thinks a helping of Egusi soup, a Nigerian staple, might just hit the spot. Space in ...

When the Crew-11 astronauts launched to the International Space Station on August 1, 2025, they carried with them another chapter in space farming: the latest VEG-03 experiments, complete with seed ...

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