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Science Confirms the Terrible Truth
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Veggies May Be the Key to Fighting Cancer
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Decoded Corn Genome Promises Higher Yields, Better Biofuels, New Plastics
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Video: Supermarket Checkout Scanner Uses Object Recognition Instead of Bar Codes
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The Laboratory That Infects Salad With Deadly Pathogens
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Archive Gallery: The Future of Food
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Majority Of Foodborne Illness Caused By Green Vegetables
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How To Turn Garden Beets Into A Drum Machine
People conduct electric charges, and so do vegetables. This simple fact spurred designer Scott Garner to build the Beet Box: a machine that plays drum-kit sounds at the tap of a beet. The beets...
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Do Kids Eat More Veggies When Schools Serve Healthier Lunches?
Salad Days USDA photo by Lance Cheung You can build it, but will they eat it? In a new study, the U.S. Department of Agriculture examined whether serving more fruits and veggies in school lunches is...
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How NASA Is Developing Fresh Space Salad
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Which Vegetable Perfectly Describes Your (Least) Favorite Celebrity?
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Space-Grown Vegetables Are Safe To Eat, Scientists Announce
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Big Pic: A Prettier Greenhouse For Growing Veggies In Space
A Vegetable Production System 'Plant Pillow' NASA/Bryan Onate The latest design for growing vegetables in space is a bit prettier than its predecessors. This is a collapsible growth chamber made by...
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Out Of Old Factory, Japanese Company Sells... High-Tech Lettuce
Lettuce inspection Workers inspect the lettuce in the Fukushima Prefecture facility. Fujitsu In an empty space in its former factory in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, electronics-maker Fujitsu is now...
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Deep in the Illinois Institute of Technology is a Biosafety Level 3 certified containment unit: one of the only places in the country that intentionally infects spinach with…
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People conduct electric charges, and so do vegetables. This simple fact spurred designer Scott Garner to build the Beet Box: a machine that plays drum-kit sounds at the tap…
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You can build it, but will they eat it? In a new study, the U.S. Department of Agriculture examined whether serving more fruits and veggies in school lunches is actually…
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Early in the history of the U.S. space program, space ice cream caught the imagination of American youngsters. Now, NASA and other researchers are developing a different kind of space food—space-grown...
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