Besides the fact that this is bean-harvest season, it’s a good time to think about incorporating this highly nutritious and health-promoting food into our meal plans. Beans are legumes — plants with ...

Enchanted beans are no longer a fairy tale proposition for agriculture. Thumb-sized plastic beans, packed with a world of sensor circuitry, might soon be ready for grain bins and storage facilities.

“I thought beans were just beans,” says Sharpstown resident Jane Hudson of her view on the legumes before she saw the light. For four years now, she has been a member of the Rancho Gordo Bean Club.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A friend of mine once recounted his evening ...

When Brian DeDecker drives past the bucolic green soybean fields en route to his childhood home in rural Illinois, his mind drifts not to the past but to the future. As a first-generation college ...

Just like the peanut is not really a nut and the pineapple is not an apple, not all "beans" are beans. Perhaps the most remarkable of all the beans-that-are-not-really-beans are Mexican jumping beans, ...