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Learn about the Moon-Rice project, which aims to create rice crops that can grow in space and help keep astronauts healthy.

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Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices ...

Japan has spent decades encouraging farmers to grow less rice, afraid that oversupply could cause prices to collapse. But ...

Water rose fast along the Guadalupe River, causing dozens of deaths. Local officials said they couldn’t have seen it coming.

Vermont’s farmers are growing crops that better suit the state’s warmer and wetter climate — and branching into products that ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.

The response from the right was swift and unsparing. Within hours, Mamdani — who was born in Uganda and raised in New York — ...