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![LED growing lights, agriculture, food production](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WfmxCYb6oL7fSbiYaGT8HG-320-80.jpg)
New Tech Sheds Light on the Future of Food
By Chungui Lu, Erik Murchie published
We need to make better use of land, light and logistics for an increasingly urban population. And we need to incorporate zero-waste and low-energy technologies into the task of food production.
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Ocean-Watching Satellite Reveals Secrets of Soil (Image)
By Stephanie Pappas published
A NASA instrument designed to study the oceans turns out to be useful for studying land, too. The Aquarius instrument reveals levels of moisture in soil around the globe.
![One-week-old moss plants regenerated from single cells showing chlorophyll autofluorescence](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SUZeF8BBGsUcsLAxqvCAg-320-80.jpg)
Plant Detectives Dig Into How Cells Grow
By Susan M. Reiss published
Moss offers clues in the search for how molecular signals direct cell growth.
![excavations in turkey](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yAFk42rGP3a8YHT7hFxk68-320-80.jpg)
Hunters to Herders: Ancient Civilization Made Rapid Switch
By Charles Q. Choi published
![Honeybees are in decline in Europe and North America.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xeonNSGNtFj964w8XdsBEb-320-80.jpg)
Farmers Get $3 Million in Bee Lunch Money
By Stephanie Pappas published
A new USDA program pays farmers to reseed fields with clover, alfalfa and other plants good for grazing that also feed bees. The initiative is an attempt to counteract colony collapse disorder.
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Humans Managed Rainforests of Southeast Asia for Thousands of Years
By Megan Gannon published
The "untouched" rainforests of Southeast Asia may have been more manhandled than previously thought, with humans burning forests to make way for food-bearing plants soon after the last ice age ended.
![Here, an abandoned farmstead in Preston, Conn., is hidden from view in this aerial photograph and only visible in the LiDAR scan of the area from 2010 (right).](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X3outfa89cKUTnCHkaDtNY-320-80.jpg)
New England's 'Lost' Archaeological Sites Rediscovered
By Wynne Parry published
Examinations of airborne scans of three New England towns revealed networks of old stone walls, building foundations, old roads, dams and other features, many of which long were forgotten.
![A Colombian coffee plantation](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mGQR3URCzMgEgkphbynyMA-320-80.jpg)
Scientists Take On Coffee-Loving Pests
By Susan M. Reiss published
Genetic research from across the ocean poised to help coffee bean growers in Columbia.
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