As dark sky sanctuaries grow in popularity, scientists are revealing more of the benefits of darkness—from repairing DNA to ...

The two major challenges facing food production are its dependency on weather conditions and the need for large tracts of arable land. But a new study is offering a glimpse into a future where we ...

At 50, one writer decided that her dark brown hair was no longer to dye for. But going silver, it turns out, comes with its ...

What will happen to plants that are kept in the dark is what we're going to talk about today. If you have that one room in ...

God help us. I can’t do better than those words, uttered last year by Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, when he dolefully contemplated ...

In high school, Grant Jeffrey Garst followed in the footsteps of his daddy and grandfather. Now he's keeping the tobacco farming tradition alive.

Bioengineers propose "electro-agriculture," a method that replaces photosynthesis with a solar-powered reaction converting ...

While autoflowers don’t rely on light schedules, they still benefit from a consistent light source. Many growers use a 20/4 or 18/6 light cycle (20 or 18 hours of light, followed by 4 or 6 hours of ...

Tobacco has long been a lifeline for Southern farmers. It's lifted communities out of poverty and enabled families to hold onto land for generations.

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on ...

Hormonal coils, which release low levels of hormones into the body, are one of two types of contraceptive intrauterine device ...

Between the dark moon phase and a tricky planetary opposition, it's safe to say that the cosmos understood the assignment ...