Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born ...

LAKE ANDES, S.D. — Just outside Lake Andes, a steel grain bin once used to store corn and soybeans has been converted into a ...

I was in the ancient city of Cuzco, Peru -- once the capital of the Inca Empire -- standing at the train station with the ...

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, according to new research.

A team led by Chinese scientists found that there was a natural crossing nine million years ago, in an investigation with ...

Dr. Stone season 4 episode 16 brings tension and discovery as the Kingdom of Science splits missions. While one team revives an expert to study the Medusa, Senku leads the rest toward the Andes ...

“We’ve finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from.” The paper describing the hybridisation event has been published in the journal Cell. Domestic potatoes are incredibly diverse, but it ...

The potato came from a chance natural interbreeding event between the ancestors of today’s tomatoes and those of a closely related group called Etuberosum.

What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of ...

New research traces the genetic ancestry of the popular root vegetable to a brief plant romance millions of years ago.

Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato.

Archaeologists must have one of the coolest jobs ever—as long as a lifetime of digging around in the dirt yields some epic results, like priceless artifacts, treasure-filled tombs, or groundbreaking ...