agriculture

Hoverflies: The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

  It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of…

3 months ago

Why do we love carbs? The origins predate agriculture and maybe even our split from Neanderthals

If you've ever struggled to reduce your carb intake, ancient DNA might be to blame. It has long been known…

1 year ago

A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant

Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The…

2 years ago