International research co-led by UMass Amherst offers strong potential to address three major global challenges: a growing ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

You can grow rice at home without having to flood your garden. The best kinds of rice to grow in your garden are 'Loto' Upland', 'Hayayuki' Upland, Duborskian', and Scarlett'. You can plant rice in ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

Cooking rice like pasta, with lots of water that's drained, can cut down arsenic levels by over 50 percent. Choosing white ...

Intensifying floods are rapidly undermining global rice production, putting food security at risk for billions.

India's diverse rice landscape offers a culinary journey across its regions. From the aromatic Basmati of the North to the ...

We’re in the pink. Korean scientists have come up with an astonishing new type of lab-grown rice — one packed with animal protein. The rose-tinted spectacle has hungry tongues wagging in the ...

Making “cultivated” meat by growing chicken or beef cells in a bioreactor isn’t easy or cheap. Startups in the space are struggling to scale up production. But new research suggests that instead of ...