potatoes
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Doom Runs on Anything, Including Rotting Potatoes
You can get the classic video game Doom to run on a lot of things: pianos, printers, old Nokia phones, and even electronic pregnancy tests. But one YouTuber decided to flip the script on the ole, “Does it run Doom?” test to ask the heroic question: How many potatoes do you need to generate enough…
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Potatoes Have A Form Of ‘Depression’, But Scientists Have An Idea To Cure Them
Scientists are trying to revolutionise potatoes and, in the process, cure the tubers’ depression, the result of generations of inbreeding.
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There’s A Much Better Choice Than Potatoes For Our First Space Farm
The Martian made space potato farming look, if not quite delicious or easy, then certainly plausible. But if we’re really going to live out in space, potatoes should absolutely not be our first farming choice.
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Your Herbs Have For Some Reason Declared War On Your Potatoes
Proving that the world never stops being weird, scientists found an unexpected property in two common household herbs. For some reason, they contain a chemical that stops another plant from sprouting.