Agricultural lime takes time to work, but it provides excellent returns by improving soil pH, nutrient availability and fertilizer efficiency.

Accurate assessment of soil salinity is critical for sustainable agriculture and food security, yet remains technically challenging at fine spatial scales.

Chemists in South Korea have created a stable color-changing sensor that displays an easily quantifiable response to the pH of its surroundings. Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Dong-Hwan ...

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the ...

Chris Cobos is the Texas A&M AgriLife Research environmental soil scientist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Vernon.

Botanical sensors are turning greenery into living data networks while monitoring plant health and optimizing yields.

Have you ever worked with a group of people trying to solve a problem? There are different opinions, different considerations, and each person’s perspective provides a different angle on the problem.

Oily skin occurs when sebaceous glands make too much sebum, leaving skin shiny or greasy. Breakouts are more likely with oily skin because sebum traps dead skin cells in pores. Excess oil can be ...

Whether you learned with 'bunny ears' or 'around the tree', tying your shoelaces is something most people crack at a young age. But experts now say that you've probably been doing it wrong this entire ...

Last year, more than 24,000 farmers and gardeners requested soil sample testing through MU Extension. This year, the Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory in Mumford Hall is making it simpler and cheaper ...

Barbie Cervoni, MS, RD, CD/N, CDE, is a registered dietitian (RD) and certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES). She has spent most of her career counseling patients with diabetes, ...