Credit: Mattpopovich / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons The division of people into various social classes is a persistent feature across civilizations and was no less the case in ancient Greece where social ...

Alex Wild/Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Ants have been farming fungi since shortly after an asteroid triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago, according to a study ...

These days, when wide-eyed entrepreneurs in Singapore approach agri-tech consultant Lionel Wong for help with starting their vertical vegetable farming business, his advice tends to be ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Originally celebrated among ancient Celts in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland over 2,000 years ago, the celebration was a time of elation and revelry when the veil between the living and the dead was ...

Ohio State University professor John Fulton points to the current farm economy as one catalyst driving interest. He believes challenges in recruiting skilled labor and an increasing comfort with ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...

“You have to discard everything and reset.” The only real path forward, says Loureiro, is farming the land: “The perchlorate problem is something that we will inevitably have to deal with.” ...

an ancient race of educated and advanced people taught our grunting, cave-dwelling ancestors all the key tenets of civilisation. “They taught them agriculture, art, and engineering.

It has been claimed that fish farming is a sustainable source of food that will help us feed the growing global human population while protecting wild fish populations – but this isn’t true.

It's not clear why ancient humans and other animals in this group lived in this seemingly harsh climate rather than explore more hospitable places. But they seemed able to tolerate the ice age ...