Urban pollinators are quietly restructuring their entire seasonal calendars, and the culprit behind this shift may be closer to home than most people expect. A sweeping new study across dozens of ...

Tijuana Flats is back in the franchising game. The brand relaunched its franchising program this spring following a turbulent stretch marked by bankruptcy, restaurant closures, and a change in ...

Could the United States reinstate a military draft? The last military draft occurred in the early '70s: In 1971, then-President Richard Nixon signed legislation authorizing the end of the draft. The ...

Honeybees, especially crucial for their pollination services, are vital to agriculture and the environment, but bee breeding was largely a matter of chance until Professor Harry H. Laidlaw Jr., ...

Future Marines recite the oath of enlistment at Military Entrance Processing Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 24, 2022. (Cpl. Lydia Gordon/U.S. Marine Corps) Fearing that its new plans for the U ...

With their dazzling blooms, orchids are among the most famous and collected flowering plants on Earth. But orchids are not just beautiful and rare. They can also provide clues into the broader health ...

(NEXSTAR) – While ceasefire efforts continue in the Middle East, questions have remained about whether a military draft could happen in the U.S. U.S troops are set to remain “in, and around, Iran,” ...

(NEXSTAR) — Amid the war in Iran, many have questioned whether a military draft will take place in the U.S. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier this month that while a draft is ...

Although a variety of insects visit melon blossoms, bees are the most effective pollinators because they can efficiently transfer the heavy, sticky pollen required for proper fruit set. Both managed ...

A fabric organza bag shields the blossom from cross-pollination. Keep it in place until the developing fruit appears, then remove it and tag the stem so you’ll know that the fruit contains true seed.

Plant breeders collect and apply pollen one plant at a time. Scaling that process to full fields of seed corn once seemed unlikely, but PowerPollen in Ames, Iowa, has been working on it since 2015.