For the past 50 years, the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans has been helping Latino families reach greater heights through charter schools, counseling programs, adult education and ...

Caleb Harper, principal investigator and director of the Open Agriculture initiative at the MIT Media Lab. Kent Larson courtesy of MIT Media Lab In his book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial ...

Caleb Harper, a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, claimed to have built a “personal food computer” that can grow any plant in a small, controlled environment. He also claimed to have ...

This story originally appeared on Anthropocene. The latest world-changing idea for agriculture sprouted three years ago, not from a field but from a computer lab. In 2015, Caleb Harper, an MIT Media ...

Winemakers, dairy farmers, French chefs, Eastern European oligarchs and hydroponic farming aficionados have all had their worlds rocked this month. Animal rights activists are celebrating, however.

Personal food computers (PFCs) developed by the Open Agricultural Initiative in MIT's Media Lab and sent to Syrian refugee camps in Amman, Jordan have been revealed to be nonfunctional, according to ...

"The project has been great for the Media Lab, because it allows us to reach learners and communities we may not reach through online-only programs," Schmidt said in an email. "And the libraries ...

Removing a TED Talk is rare, but our team reviewed the information and this talk does not meet TED’s science guidelines and content guidelines. Harper’s 2015 TED Talk, titled “This Computer Will Grow ...

A high-profile research project at MIT's Media Lab that promoted growing food at home in mini-greenhouses was quietly closed last month amid allegations that its results were exaggerated to sponsors ...