Navtronics, a Belgium ESA Business Incubation Centre start-up company, is tailoring intelligent guidance for agricultural machinery using advanced satnav.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

May 16, 2013 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

Tomatoes grown on organic farms accumulate higher concentrations of sugars, vitamin C and compounds associated with oxidative stress compared to those grown on conventional farms, according to research published February ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 20, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 5

The European Union on Tuesday took the debate about genetically modified crops to the public with a survey asking citizens to share their thoughts on organic farming.

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

Stress affects the congenital immune defence system. New doctoral research has revealed how stress can lower the immunity of salmon and increase its susceptibility to viral infection.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

Inserting rows of "fertilizer trees" into maize fields, known as agroforestry, can help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa cope with the impacts of drought and degraded soils, according to a 12-year-long study by researchers ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 15, 2012 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org)—University of Florida scientists are researching a natural herbicide that could be used in traditional and organic farming.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

On the rooftop of a tower block above the hustle and bustle of teeming Hong Kong, dedicated growers tend to their organic crops in a vegetable garden.

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) -- Can organic agriculture feed the world?

Biology - Other

Apr 25, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 1 |

Globally speaking, the yield from crops from organic farming is on average twenty percent lower than from crops grown according to conventional farming methods. This is the finding of a so-called meta-study carried out by ...

Biology - Other

Mar 01, 2012 not rated yet 0

Organic farms produce strawberries with fewer malformations and a higher proportion of fully pollinated berries relative to conventional forms, according to a Feb. 15 report in the open access journal PLoS ONE.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 15, 2012 not rated yet 0

Philippine authorities seized a haul of about 2,000 live geckos as part of a campaign to protect the lizard that is highly-valued in traditional Asian medicine, police said Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 30, 2011 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind turbines that float hundreds of feet above the ground or sea and are deployable in 24 hours are the focus of the "Aerostat Platform for Rapid Deployment Airborne Wind Turbine" project ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Oct 27, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 8

Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 24, 2011 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nine-spotted ladybug, New York's official state insect, was feared to be extinct in this state until citizen scientists rallied to Cornell's call to help look for it. Several nine-spotted ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 04, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

By age 4, Michael Mazourek was already fascinated by bell peppers, squash and sugar peas, the vegetables that featured prominently in his first garden.

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 20, 2011 not rated yet 0