China's accelerated push for promoting trade-in deals for products is paying off, with significant growth in consumer spending on key goods like automobiles and home appliances, providing a solid base ...

A consumer (right) learns about trade-in plans for home appliances at a store in Chongqing in July. SUN KAIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY With China providing financial incentives to encourage consumers to ...

Pruning summer-fruiting strawberries in fall would be a pruning mistake as it risks next year’s crop and leaves the tender ...

KARACHI: Faculty members, hundreds of students and a non-governmental organisation have transformed the once-neglected and ...

Dried fruit has a reputation for being high in calories and sugar, but experts say it can be just as good for you as fresh. True, dried fruit will have more sugar by weight than the fresh version ...

The small greenish flowers grow on trees in their native Mexico and other warm climates. However, despite fitting all the requirements for a fruit, avocados are more often treated as vegetables in ...

Question: We have a large 60+ foot mulberry tree in our backyard that is located by our pond. This is the first year I have seen these dark streaks on the bark of the tree. Should I have concerns?

DES MOINES — Iowa is already seeing the fruits of a recent 10-day trade trip to India, with hopes of more results to come soon, Gov. Kim Reynolds and other state leaders said Wednesday. Iowa’s ...

To keep veterans from being overcharged for closing costs, the program has rules about VA non-allowable fees, which limit the type and amount of fees that VA borrowers pay. The VA has a list of costs ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — Iowa is already seeing the fruits of a recent 10-day trade trip to India, with hopes ...

This tractable but non-trivial level of complexity has made fruit flies an attractive target for those who would like to build a “connectome” of an animal brain—a three-dimensional map of ...

Previous researchers have mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...