Explore How Research Impacts Your Life

ARS researchers are evaluating ways to use gluten-free alternatives, like amaranth, in popular products like cookies.

Learn about insects and what we can do to keep them out of our homes.

What you eat at certain stages of life may determine your future health.

Great pizza needs great ingredients! Did you know that two of those were developed by ARS?

Learn about photosynthesis and how plants use it to feed the planet.

ARS maintains an experimental orchard in Geneva, NY, devoted to bringing you even better apples for the future.

ARS has bred "seedless" grape varieties with seeds so tiny that you can't even detect them.

A team of ARS researchers is developing a web-based tool that will help cattle producers select the best bull for their herds.

Controlling one of the most aggressive invasive weeds in the southeastern United States.

ARS researchers helped formulate a tasty fruit-based bar with health-promoting ingredients.

Scientists are turning potentially wasted fruits and veggies into tasty, healthful products for you to enjoy.

A thermo-catalytic system may help farmers and ranchers convert farm and ranch leftovers and waste to sources of bioenergy.

ARS scientists have come up with a very promising for peanut allergy treatment.

Scientists is working on a double-cropping system that may improve a farmer’s profit margin.

ARS scientists found a way to make a valuable compound from left over bread.

Scientists at the ARS Fruit and Tree Nut Research Station have developed a new way to protect pecans from diseases.

Microscopic algae could provide a strong, sustainably produced artificial diet for honeybees.

ARS scientists are close to landing answers and potential remedies to the elusive disease, Aeromonas hydrophila.

ARS scientists are working with NASA to develop technologies to allow astronauts to grow fresh produce while in space.