It may seem like niche science, but Wightman believes maple has a wide-reaching potential to satisfy America’s insatiable sweet tooth and buoy local economies. What’s more, a sugar bush—the term for a ...

Forget about buckets. In recent years, maple syrup has been made with reverse osmosis sap extractors and air injectors. This week, the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center in ...

LA PLUME TWP. – The sweet caramel syrup from tapped maple trees on Keystone College’s campus was on display Saturday at the school’s Sugar Shack Open House. Located on the college’s Woodland Campus, ...

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...

You can get the sugar out of a lot of trees, but there's something special about the sugar maple. Its trunk is highly efficient at storing and... Mar 18, 2021 — You can get the sugar out of a lot of ...

Compact Science dives into the science of maple syrup: biology, physics, and chemistry revealed! Join us on Compact Science as we explore the sweet science of maple syrup! Learn about the biology of ...

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Some farmers in the United States and Canada have noticed that the quantity and quality of their maple syrup is changing with climate variability. Now researchers who are investigating these ...

American maple syrup almost went extinct. In 1993, sugar makers in New York State, the second-largest producer in the U.S. behind Vermont, made only 180,000 gallons of syrup. A century earlier, in ...