The two most common varieties are Coffea arabica and Coffea robusta. Arabica beans are often celebrated for their sweet and fruity flavor. They’re frequently touted for superior taste ...

Coffee’s story starts in the lush highlands of Ethiopia, the natural homeland of the delicate Coffea arabica plant. Although they are called “coffee beans”, the plant is not a legume ...

As of now, almost all of humanity’s coffee needs are supplied by just two species: Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora, widely known as robusta. Arabica has plenty of varieties, such as geisha ...

It was the yellowing label on an ancient jar of coffee beans tucked away in a herbarium that caught the eye of Aaron Davis, a ...

Climate change has added further strain, threatening the delicate temperature balance required by the Coffea arabica plant. This growing pressure has inspired physicists at the University of ...

The beans, labelled as coming from the species coffea stenophylla, physically resembled arabica beans, which account for about 60 per cent of the coffee drunk worldwide (the rest is mostly robusta ...