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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...
Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 4: Breaktime: Getting Healthy
Here at ARS, we are constantly researching ways to make the food in your shopping cart healthier and tastier, including for those who have to be careful about the food...
Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 3: These Peaches Are A Real Joy
We travel to Byron, Georgia, to the ARS Fruit and Tree Nut Research Unit, and visit with Research Horticulturist Chunxian Chen. Dr. Chen and his group recently release...
Season 9: Healthier & Tastier – It's All In The Formula | Episode 2: Cheers To A Heartier New Hop
We travel to Corvallis, Oregon, to meet with ARS research geneticist John Henning. Here at the Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit, John and his team recently releas...
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 8: Wearable Science
Americans spend millions, maybe billions, on clothes every year. It’s a huge industry. And when you think about clothes, do the words style, fit, and comfort come to m...
Season 8: Wearable Science | Episode 7: Back to the Future with Hemp
Is hemp the plant of the future? See if this crop, which has been around for thousands of years, will find its place in the US agricultural marketplace.Connect with u...
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 8: Wearable Science | Episode 5: Breaktime
Learn about scientific breakthroughs from ARS. Check out jeans that don’t scratch, insect repellents made from natural ingredients, and the Super Slurper!Connect with...
Season 8: Wearable Science | Episode 4: Preparing For Combat
ARS is showing its military might by developing insect-repellent treatments that could be applied to service member uniforms to protect our brave men and women from a ...
Season 8: Wearable Science | Episode 3: Turning Down the Flames
What if your clothes were naturally flame-retardant, and that protection were durable enough to remain effective after multiple washes? Well, that’s just what ARS rese...
Season 8: Wearable Science | Episode 2: Getting Cozy with Wool
Did you know that many of the advances in wool and leather clothing were developed in Wyndmoor, PA, including a technique to get rid of the yellowing of wool?Connect w...
Season 8: Wearable Science | Episode 1: COVID-Busting Clothing
Learn how ARS researchers in New Orleans are finding innovative ways to enhance masks, clothing, and other wearable materials that help protect against coronavirus.Con...
Season 7: Sports and Science
Every part of a sport, from the clothing to the equipment, even to the playing field, has been enhanced by science. In this podcast, we look at how agricultural scien...
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 7: Sports and Science || Episode 6: Good Leather
The leather industry in the United States, while not as prosperous as in days past, is still a significant market in textiles, clothing, and sports. ARS researchers h...
Season 7: Sports and Science || Episode 5: Turf Battles
Did you know ARS has been developing natural turf cultivars since the 1940s? And this has led to improved playing surfaces on golf courses all across the country.Conn...
Season 7: Sports & Science | Episode 4: Break Time - True or False about Nutrition
Are apples good for you to eat before or during an athletic event? How about bananas? When should you consume sports drinks. Find out these answers and more in our fun...
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 7: Sports and Science | Episode 1: Batter Up
The sport of baseball is woven into America’s culture like the uniforms worn by the players. Baseball has been around for nearly 150 years, and in that time we’ve seen...
Season 6: Aquaculture
On this season of Science in Your Shopping Cart, we take a deep dive in to seafood production in the U.S. Learn how research facilities across the country are develop...
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 9: West Coast Shellfish Represent!
Learn how ARS scientists are working with Oregon State University to produce new strains of the Pacific Oyster and protect them from a serious disease that’s recently ...
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 8: East Coast Shellfish Represent!
An east coast perspective on how important shellfish are to our agriculture ecosystem and how their sustainability and low environmental impact makes the shellfish mar...
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 7: How Do You Fight Fish Disease?
A healthy fish is a happy fish! ARS researchers are fighting fish diseases by developing vaccines, breeding fish strains that are resistant to select diseases, and pro...
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 6: Water Conservation in Indoor Systems
Take a tour of an indoor recirculating system in Shepherdstown, West Virginia and learn how ARS researchers are using less fresh water while keeping optimal performanc...
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 5: Aquaculture Trivia!
Test your knowledge of aquaculture and learn some interesting facts.Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARSFacebook: @AgriculturalResearchServiceLinkedIn: @usda-ars
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 4: Taking on Atlantic Salmon's Biggest Foe
Sea lice is a huge problem in the seafood business. Not only does sea lice cause physical harm, but it can also stress the fish out, which can then affect their growth...
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 3: Farm Fishing Indoors
When you grow anything indoors, you can control a lot of the conditions, including temperature, irrigation, insect and disease resistance, and water quality and consum...
Season 6: Aquaculture | Episode 2: Fastest Growing Fish You've Ever Seen
Fish farmers are using natural contained aquifers to grow fish to market size at an incredible fast rate. That’s because aquifers can provide optimal conditions for fi...
