A Matter of Taste
by Chase Smoak Your guide to growing delicious homegrown tomatoes Many gardeners claim if you want great flavor, you’ll need to plant heirloom varieties. People selected these landrace tomato plants long ago for traits such as shape, size and taste, so the claim has a basis. In pursuit of a better tasting tomato, however, significant factors like resistance to insects and disease were...
Reaching for the stars
Technology helps make Rett Walters' celestial dreams come true Humans have gazed at the night sky for as long as they’ve walked the Earth. But few have gazed at the stars the way Rett Walters does it. He’s got his own observatory sitting on a hilltop that overlooks...
Golf, games and good times
State Tech brings high-tech driving range to Linn The “click” of a golf ball being struck echoes through the chilly winter air. The weather might be a little too crisp to hit links for nine holes this afternoon, but golf enthusiasts in mid-Missouri now have the...
Camp of Curiosity
A fun camp for all things science by Heather Berry The past 31 years have been quite an adventure for Lori and Scott Martin. When they step out the front door each day, they’ve arrived at their workplace where more than 300 critters — including mammals, amphibians,...