It took three high-schoolers more than 10,000 fruit flies to bring home first-place science fair honors. Juniors Will Hammond, Alex Vermeulen and Aidan Harrington modeled natural selection evolution ...

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The Shenzhou-19 crew has made smooth progress in the space life sciences and human research project focused on the space hypomagnetic effects on drosophila and their molecular mechanisms. The "fruit ...

Is it possible to fall in love with a fruit? Six or seven years ago a young Web producer named Chip Brantley was browsing the Culver City farmers market when he encountered a yellow-skinned, ...

A couple of years ago two eminent scientists performed an experiment. Nothing unusual in that, you might think. Think again; when did the eminent scientists of your acquaintance last perform an ...

For many business owners, getting the most out of staff is a perennial problem. In the case of fruit farmers, perhaps perennial is the wrong word: Workers show up for the summer harvest only. In a ...

UC Riverside’s living citrus museum, which has 400 acres of trees, has attracted a cult following. There was the nurseryman from France who came to the United States only to admire its unusual and ...