Twelve million hectares of agricultural soils are lost globally through soil degradation every year. As an ecologist, I work alongside farmers and growers in the field and have seen how farming can ...

A research team developed new equipment that achieved fully automatic and unmanned detection of soil nutrients (such as organic matter, available potassium, available phosphorus) and heavy metals ...

Farming row crops has always required a careful balancing act between managing costs and maintaining soil health. For decades ...

Global electronic waste reached approximately 62 million metric tons in 2022, with soft robots—widely applied in healthcare, agriculture, and environmental monitoring—contributing to this accumulation ...

Outside Luling, Texas, a few houses are seemingly just growing out of a field. There are no masons stacking bricks, no crew pouring concrete forms, no lumber frame waiting to be wrapped in drywall.