All Episodes
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Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 6: How To Make Your Yard Pollinator Friendly
Bee experts Liz Walsh and Lanie Bilodeau offer tips for making your home yards more bee friendly.Find out how you can help honey bees by clicking on the extension serv...
Season 5: WonderPlants | Episode 5: Did You Know - Insect Repellants
Did you know that some wonderplants can be used to control and even kill annoying flies and mosquitoes?Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResear...
Season 2: Apples: Get Crunchin' | Episode 3: Precision Sprayer
These days, we are all more conscious of pesticide spraying, especially growers who rely on this method for keeping pests off their crops. ARS scientists have develope...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 10: Turning Wine Waste Into Healthy Food Products
ARS researchers Nancy Keim and Wally Yokoyama are looking to turn wine waste – mainly pomace or what the researchers call marcs – into healthy food products that end u...
Season 7: Sports and Science | Episode 7: Nutrition is Part of Training Too
Wendy Shaw, a registered dietitian formerly with the National Agricultural Library, discusses the importance of nutrition, from the world’s elite athletes to the weeke...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 1: Kicking Off The Rust In Wheat
Wheat is a big crop in the United States. Stripe rust is one of the most important diseases for wheat. ARS Research Plant Pathlogist, Xianming Chen and researchers w...
Season 5: WonderPlants | Episode 6: From Shells to Cells
ARS scientists are coming up with new ways to produce clean energy by developing a large filter-type application out of discarded almond shells that could capture and ...
Season 2: Apples: Get Crunchin' | Episode 5: Mysterious Disease
Apple growers have a mystery on their hands. Something is killing popular dwarf apple trees, but researchers are unsure if the cause is environmental, viral, soil-base...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 7: Tracking Water Usage With AI
ARS researcher Bradley King, a research agricultural engineer at ARS’s Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research lab in Kimberly, ID, is utilizing AI technology to help ...
Season 9: Healthier & Tastier | Episode 1: A Healthier Milk Chocolate
The U.S. imports around $5 billion in cocoa and chocolate products annually, and we produce millions of pounds of chocolate for consumers. The health benefits of dark ...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 3: Fatal Attraction
Meet ARS researcher Jacob Corcoran, a research molecular biologist at ARS’s Biological Control of Insects Unit in Columbia, MO. Corcoran and his team are working on a...
Season 7: Sports and Science | Episode 3: Taking the Smell Out of Sports
Nanoparticles help protect your body from germs and other microbials, it also fights body odor, especially from sweating. ARS researchers have figured out a better wa...
Season 7: Sports and Science | Episode 2: Stay Hydrated
Hydration is so important to our bodies during exercise, perhaps more important than the exercise itself. Not properly hydrating during athletic competitions or every ...
Season 3: Biomass | Episode 2: Polymers from Cotton Gin Trash
Learn about innovations and research that ARS scientists are conducting to turn cotton waste into agro-based biodegradable polymers.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARS...
Season 8: Wearable Science | Episode 6: Spotting A Good Hide
Get the inside story of how ARS researchers created an automated, objective method for detecting imperfections on a hide - a method that greatly benefits U.S. leather ...
Season 3: Biomass | Episode 1: Pallets from Almond Shells
ARS scientists are turning agricultural waste (Biomass) into environmentally friendly products that can replace non-biodegradable plastics.Connect with us: Twitter: @U...
Season 2: Apples: Get Crunchin' | Episode 2: Apple Sorting Machine
ARS researchers have developed an in-field apple sorting machine that not only improves apple picking efficiency, but also scans and grades apples. Think of it as a 21...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 8: Robots & Wine
ARS researcher Lance Cadle-Davidson, a research plant pathologist at ARS’s Grape Genetics Research Unit in the finger lakes region in Geneva, NY, is helping protect wi...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 3: Nutrient Packed Ancient Grains
Ancient grains refers to a category of grains – particularly pseudo-cereals – that possess a very unique health benefit that provide essential nutritional requirements...
Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 5: Waxing Poetic About Healthy Oils
Wouldn’t it be great if the oils and margarines you cook with were actually healthy for you and still enhanced the flavor of your foods? Researchers at ARS’s Functiona...
