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The first hole the scientists dug was in the wrong place. They were looking for a bottle, one of 20 buried in the fall of 1879 by a botanist named William James Beal in a secret location on the campus ...

Researchers working on a secretive, 144-year-long experiment on "zombie seeds" have discovered a surprising hybrid plant hiding among the other buried buds. In 1879, botanist William Beal buried 20 ...

In a remarkable fusion of traditional agriculture and cutting-edge space exploration, seeds of six crop varieties from Kerala will take flight aboard the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) to the International ...