UB biologists are serving as consultants on the ultimate middle school science project: farming potatoes aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The experiment is the brainchild of Gabriella ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. In a field near the Dutch village of Angeren, a biotechnology company named Solynta grows potatoes in square plots, about 16 by 13 feet each. One ...

Students and their teachers in grades pre-k through 12 will gain knowledge about producing Colorado Potatoes this spring ...

The potato is a versatile vegetable—baked, roasted, fried, mashed—it can bring something to just about any menu. But, how exactly do these tasty tubers end up on our tables? We’ll give you a crash ...

When we finally get people to Mars to live and form a colony, what will they eat? Eventually these pioneers will have to move away from the supplies they take with them from Earth and start to grow ...

Science can reward its practitioners with thrilling eureka moments — with an emphasis on “moments.” A lot of research is slogging through experiments that don’t always work, wading through research ...

When Rachel Díaz of Culver City, California, “magically” refilled a soda can for her son, the nine-year-old’s first words were “Cool!” And then: “How’d you do that?” Science-based magic tricks stand ...