California-based Andes has raised $15 million in series A funding to develop a microbe-containing seed coating intended to kick-start nitrogen fixation in the root structure of seeds, reducing the ...

Now, place on your palm a conker or a grain of wheat, an avocado pip. Clasp it. Always the hard physicality, but also the sense of potency, so definite as to be tangible. Seeds. The beginning of life ...