Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

Risks that pertain to all manner of new crops are often misattributed to genetic engineering. This distorts the public’s view of the technology.

Bumblebee colonies grow poorly in landscapes dominated by maize, researchers find.

Scrutinizing a company’s study on a widely used pesticide, chlorpyrifos, academic researchers find shortcomings in analyses and public disclosures of results.

A high-tech approach to monitoring bee activity inside the nest reveals how the neonicotinoid imidacloprid impairs colony growth.

While farmers have the green light to grow the genetically engineered plant, FDA approval is still needed before the seeds are sold as food.

Tens of thousands of hogs are being slaughtered to stop its spread.

The average price of a pint could double by the end of this century because of declines in barley yields, a study predicts.

Critics of an agricultural research initiative cite concerns about possible weaponization of the resulting technology, which would use infected insects to deliver genetically modified viruses to plants.