Once again, corn is proving it can replace petroleum-based plastics in a commonly-used product: filters for HVAC systems in ...

There’s a company in Chicago’s Medical District that has figured out how to replace petroleum in the manufacture of many everyday items, from house paint to bandages to diapers. In the ...

Every summer in the Midwest, residents brace themselves for not only sweltering temperatures but something a bit more mysterious – a stifling heat that seemingly sticks to the skin. But that is much ...

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything ...

It's high summer in the Midwest and the corn is "sweating." The process, which despite its nickname does not involve any actual sweating in our sense of the word, is officially known as ...