It’s a familiar sight most of us have dealt with: a swarm of fruit flies circling around an old banana peel you forgot to discard or an overripe apple lingering in the fruit bowl. While the pests are ...

The most advanced system to date for studying fruit flies in space, NASA's Fruit Fly Lab, is making its debut aboard the International Space Station. The Fruit Fly Lab-01 mission, planned to launch to ...

Pollination happens when either an organism or abiotic factor aids in the transport of pollen to the stigma of a plant. In order to reach the ovary to fertilize the ovules (eggs), the pollen grows ...

ROME, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process into 'pastries' with ...

The world around us is full of amazing creatures. My favorite is an animal the size of a pinhead, that can fly and land on the ceiling, that stages an elaborate (if not beautiful) courtship ritual, ...

The South African deciduous fruit industry has invested around US$ 367,000 (around R7 million) in a dedicated research facility to help it adhere to increasingly strict international trade regulations ...

Cutting-edge research and profoundly innovative education can dovetail nicely, as witnessed by one of University of Colorado Boulder’s up-and-coming technology transfer companies and its chief ...