Japan's famed cherry trees have carried the hearts of a nation for centuries but they will soon enjoy another honour -- their seeds being blasted into outer space. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Poppy seeds eaten even the day before a drugs test can give a false positive for heroin use. Leave those bagels alone! picked by sparky 2 years ago

Very interesting, I always wondered how they did it for some reason. Also explains how seeds germinate without pushing themselves out of the ground. picked by Blankspace73 6 months ago

Felicia Teske saw it when she sliced open the eggplant. "It's definitely there," said her husband, Paul. picked by hisidea 1 year ago

American farmers have been growing genetically modified crops for years, from seeds engineered to resist pests and chemicals. These patented seeds produced bigger crops and profits for farmers who bought them from companies like DuPont and Monsanto, but for other farmers the seeds have created a host of problems. picked by dollyllama 4 months ago

A sniff test of water vapor spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus shows it is gushing with organic molecules, increasing the possibility of life existing somewhere in the Saturn system. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Flash back three or four billion years — Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent collision may have planted the chemical seeds of life on Earth. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Germinating the seeds on the spacecraft will help scientists understand how to grow flowers with no gravity, knowledge necessary in order to send man to Mars-which would be a 3 year mission with onboard gardening for food. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Leaving out bird seed in the cold winter months can benefit the adults and their young come breeding season, a new study finds, though ornithologists are divided on the big picture when it comes to feeding our feathered friends. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Scientists at London's Kew Gardens persuade seeds from the time of George III into germination. picked by mrnelson 2 years ago

Britain's "Noah's Ark" for plants just reached its 1 billionth seed. By 2010, they'll have 10% of the world's plants categorized. They hope to have 25% by 2020... that's a LOT of plants! picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

Ultimate safety net for the world's seed collections has opened in Norway
The vault received inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds
Can hold up to 4.5M seed samples, will eventually house most types of key crops
Norwegian govt. paid to build vault in mountainside between Norway and North Pole picked by TchEngRox 6 months ago

The Svalbard International Seed Vault, first annnounced last year, will act like a Noah's Ark for nearly every food crop of every country, to safeguard the agricultural heritage of humankind in the face of increasing global environmental changes. picked by suebe 2 years ago

Chia pets, that is... picked by suebe 6 months ago

By sticking microbes to the outside of the International Space Station, Japanese researchers aim to test the "panspermia" theory that comets and asteroids can spread life between planets.

The Japanese experiment is called Tanpopo, Japanese for "dandelion", after the plant's fluffy seeds, which travel long distances on the wind. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

For sleepy baseball players and umm, tired birds.

Just don't eat them at the same time you're chewing this. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago

More on 'that' satellite! picked by topofall 6 months ago

A vast storage facility with in the Arctic circle is set to open this week, it's aim being to build a collection of seeds and other fruiting bodies of plants from around the world. Partly this is for posterity and partly as a disaster contingency plan.

Update to Xenity7's post. And by update I in no way mean dupe. picked by pocksucket 6 months ago

Ingredients –
100 Live Black Ants (avoid red ants, their too spicy)
1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped out
2 Egg Yolks
1 Tbsp. Sugar
1 tsp. Butter, melted
12 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate picked by sholom22 1 year ago