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Many would agree that one of the most pleasing sights that Fairfield County has to offer is the seas of green presented by fields of growing corn. In mid-July, however, the careful observer will ...

Organic farmers often live on islands in a sea of genetically modified crops. More than 90 percent of the corn farmers plant is genetically modified to resist pests and herbicides. And corn pollen ...

image: A single pollen grain. The image was taken using a scanning-laser confocal microscope. These microscopes take many images of a sample at different depths. Each image, or as we call them slice, ...