Coffea cruda is a homeopathic remedy made from unroasted coffee beans. Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine developed about 200 years ago by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann. It’s based on two ...

Will help develop disease-resistant varieties adaptable to climate change Sequence also key to improving coffee quality Aromatic Geisha variety used for sequencing The first public genome sequence for ...

One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full An 1896 illustration of Coffea stenophylla in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, which noted ...

The rich, aromatic beverage you can’t live without every morning has a day dedicated to it. Happy National Coffee Day, coffee lovers. Every day is coffee day for some people, but National Coffee Day ...

When Robert “Bobby” Yoakum got out of prison, he didn’t expect to get his old life back. But after a nineteen-month drug-related stint, he was filled with determination to make the best of what felt ...

The newly rediscovered species, Coffea stenophylla, has black fruit or cherries surrounding its "beans" which are actually seeds. Plant researchers are excited by the species' tolerance of higher ...

Arabica coffee is a type of coffee plant (the scientific name is coffea arabica). In fact, 60% of the sweet, fragrant coffee we drink comes from the fruit of the arabica plant; the remaining 40% of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a science commentator It was the yellowing label on an ancient jar of coffee beans tucked away in ...

Scientists say a "forgotten" coffee plant that can grow in warmer conditions could help future-proof the drink against climate change. They predict we could soon be sipping Stenophylla, a rare wild ...

A heat-tolerant coffee strain, lost to commercial production for more than 50 years, has been successfully grown in a Sierra Leone pilot project backed by trader Sucafina SA, the West African ...