Winter weeds are the overachievers of the plant world. While everything else is settling in for a long nap, these leafy rebels are already stretching, sprouting, and plotting a takeover of your lawn ...

The potential for soybean losses due to uncontrolled weeds in the U.S. and Canada adds up to $17.2 billion annually. Getting a jump on controlling winter annual weeds is especially important to ...

A silent killer stalks your soybean fields. Neither insect nor disease, the tiny, wormlike parasite called soybean cyst nematode (SCN) attacks soybean roots with such ferocity that yields can be ...

When Alice Walker’s The Color Purple hit bookshelves in 1982, it blew away critics, became a nationwide bestseller, and endeared itself to readers who found pain and inspiration in its pages. But in ...

The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on the visual spectrum. Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t ...

Since the title song of Prince’s 1984 hit movie was featured in the finale of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Dec. 31, “Purple Rain” is enjoying another life. The mesmerizing guitar-centric tune has seen ...

Cyan refers to a shade of blue. Cyanosis, then, is a purple or bluish discoloration of the skin. It’s a sign that there may be low levels of oxygen in the blood. Cyanosis is itself a symptom of an ...

Yasuo Kazuki was a Japanese artist known for his oil paintings that often depicted life as a prisoner of war in Siberia. Born in 1911 in Misumi, Yamaguchi, Japan, he spent much of his life in Misumi, ...