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Season 9: Healthier & Tastier - It's All In The Formula | Episode 6: Wrapping Up More Flavor
Dr. Tara McHugh may be the GOAT when it comes to creating foods that are both healthy and tasty. Dr. McHugh and her team have a created a variety of delicious treats ...
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 ...
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 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 5: Managing Vineyards From Space
ARS researcher Bill Kustas, a Research Hydrologist and Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at ARS’s Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, MD, is p...
Season 4: Berries | Episode 4: Strawberries
Check out our newest strawberry, and hear how new strawberry cultivars are created. Connect with us: Twitter: @USDA_ARS Facebook: @AgriculturalResearchService Linked...
Season 1: Tomatoes, Potatoes & Spinach | Episode 1: Tomatoes
Where was the Roma tomato developed? Rome? Nope, the answer may surprise you. Learn this and more interesting facts about the Roma tomato. Connect with us: Twitter:...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 9: Building A Sustainable Future For Vineyards
ARS researcher Kerri Steenwerth, a research soil scientist with the Crops Pathology and Genetics Research Unit in Davis, CA, battles weather extremes and ways to keep ...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 6: Wine Charms
The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) protects and helps the wine industry thrive in the United States. Learn some fun facts to share at your next wine tast...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Episode 4: Unintended Consequences
ARS researchers are working with the National Grape Research Alliance (NGRA) to help wine grape growers adapt to ever-evolving weather patterns as well as extreme weat...
Season 12: Cheers To Wine Grapes | Epsiode 1: Where Wine Grape Research Is Needed Most
ARS researchers work with the National Grape Research Alliance (NGRA) to initiate novel research projects and programs to solve industry challenges. And there’s no big...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains
ARS researchers have been instrumental in developing cereal crops and enhancing food for the American people. In this season of Science in Your Shopping Cart, we’re ta...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 7: Those Despicable Weeds
ARS Ecologist, Martin Williams at ARS’s Global Change and Photosynthesis Unit in Urbana, IL is researching ways to help farmers to deal with their weeds. Williams’ res...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 6: Negotiating With Diseases
ARS research leader Shahryar Kianian and his colleagues at ARS’s Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul, MN are leaning on the art of negotiation to help oat producers deal wi...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 5: Fun Facts About Cereal Crops
ARS researchers have developed and strengthened our food supply. Listen to learn some fun facts about cereal crops and other foods that can enhance your diet. Connect ...
Season 11: Wholesome, Nutritious Grains | Episode 4: The Emperor’s Rice
At the Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas, ARS geneticist Shannon Pinson studies specialty rice that is beneficial to human health. Her ...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees
Honey bees and their pollinating cousins are essential to human life. Without honey bees, we cannot grow a lot of the food we love. Honey bees have been around for mil...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 11: Breeding A Better Bee
Humans have been breeding honey bees for centuries to help them adapt to new environments, and with technology improving at a rapid pace, breeders may now have the too...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 9: The Hunt For A Predator
Join us at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., where we talk with ARS researcher Matthew Buffington, who explains how a deadly predator to the ...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 8: Bee Diversity
How many different types of bees can you think of? Bumble bees, honey bees, mason bees. There’s actually a lot more bee diversity than you think, a lot more. Find out...
Season 10: The Buzz Around Bees | Episode 7: Honey Bees And Pesticide Exposure
Pesticides are an important tool for managing hungry and destructive insects and invasive species. But there is little known how pesticides affect the bees that pollin...
