Podcasts

We have genetically engineered food; how about trees? In [June 8's] Academic Minute, North Carolina State University's Jason Delborne looks ...

Microbes surround us and enhance our lives in almost innumerable ways. These helpful micro-machines catalyze key reactions required to produce ...

Christine Burkard, assistant professor of infection and immunity at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, says her team has devised a ...

Is farming for the aging? While Paul McCartney ponders, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when ...

Mangan discusses her unique approach to spreading science literacy ...

While Indian farmers have benefited tremendously from growing insect-resistant GMO cotton, the government has outlawed the cultivation of genetically engineered ...

Everyone knows that Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA. But fewer are aware of the contribution of Rosalind ...

Does the network get it right? Not even close, says Folta ...

Kat Arney and reporter Graihagh Jackson get lost in the Valley of Hybridization ...

Whether you typically crave a drip coffee or something a bit more intricate, we can all agree that caffeine is ...

Although dinosaurs are probably never coming back, the scenes from Jurassic Park are an extrapolation of actual research being performed ...

While technology is exploding in all areas of life, it has been slow to reach agriculture. Many old, unsustainable farming ...

It's hardly possible to turn on the news, to talk to a farmer, or to visit a nursery without hearing ...

Does Bayer's weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) cause cancer? Three California juries have said yes, while a global consensus of experts ...

Africa has the most to gain from embracing crop biotechnology, yet the continent's farmers are still largely denied access to ...

Our collective desire to get “back to nature” is probably one of the better instincts from the Woodstock era that ...

A Victorian scientist's train ride to London leads to the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of inheritance, Nice story, but is ...

In the interview, Maria Konnikova is back for another round of “Is That Bullshit?” Because Mike experiences less anxiety than ...

Blackberries are a popular, healthy fruit consumed by people all over the world. Over the last century, significant progress has ...

A Google search for "glyphosate" returns 10,300,000 results—conflicting news stories, opinion articles and videos of varying accuracy. Some of these ...

Huanglongbing, or HLB, is the Chinese term for the Yellow Dragon Disease–usually referred to as citrus greening.  The disease first ...

Bet you never thought fertilizer was magical but that changes today! On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant ...

We've broken through the thousand dollar genome barrier and are heading towards $100. Leading geneticist George Church want to take ...

University of Florida researcher Linda Bartoshuk has been recognized as an expert on interactions between smell, taste and psychology for ...

For many years, the developing world has been at the center of a heated debate between mainstream scientists and anti-GMO ...

Bees are important crop pollinators and reduced bee numbers have been described by farmers overseas as a bee crisis. Global ...

In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first "GMO" pharmaceutical drug in the world, a new ...