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When gardeners talk about plant health, the conversation often jumps straight to fertilizers, pest control, or the latest miracle spray. But long before any of that matters—before seeds even hit the ...

Many of us tend to place blame for our inability to eat well on willpower; when we overeat or snack on junk food often, we usually attribute these behaviours to a lack of sufficient willpower. However ...

Did our AI summary help? For people with busy mornings, it is hard to find time to make healthy concoctions or go for an hour of physical exercise. However, waking up and jumping straight to work is ...

Hair that looks good for a day but breaks, frizzes or dulls by the next wash needs deeper care. (Picture Credit: Pexels) Strong, nourished hair holds shine better and resists breakage and dullness ...

Powdery mildew is a common fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants, identifiable by white to gray powdery spots on plant surfaces. Prevention focuses on reducing humidity around plants, ...

While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models. Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter AI ...

I built a tall 2.5-meter furnace to see if natural draft alone could achieve temperatures high enough to smelt iron. The furnace reached molten slag but no iron formed, and an unusual pulsing airflow ...

This column is written by the Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions recently asked by Yolo County gardeners. “Ask a Master Gardener” fields questions ...

Both in neighboring home gardens and at my own home these days, I am seeing powdery mildew. Powdery mildew is a disease that causes a grayish, powdery film on leaves, but it is nothing to worry about ...

Epidemics of cashew powdery mildew are observed every year in most of the growing regions in Northeast Brazil. Currently, fungicide management is the main disease control strategy. This study aimed to ...

Note: this is a rerun of an article originally printed in the Contra Costa Times. Q: I have a crape myrtle and every year it is covered in a whitish powder. I have been told it is powdery mildew, but ...