Through tailor-made hydroponic systems, H2Grow aims to solve hunger in arid regions and help vulnerable communities become more self-reliant by securing food resources. H2Grow, a project from the United Nations World Food Programme, is helping crops flourish in unexpected places.

With their state-of-the-art hurricane simulators, researchers like Brian Haus hope to gain critical insights that help improve forecasting and fortify our coastal cities before the next big one hits.

GPS is today’s go-to navigational system and it’s great until it doesn’t work. Researchers at universities and some of the world’s top tech companies are developing advanced navigational techniques designed to fill in the gaps when GPS fails.

Using machines that resemble jet engines, Climeworks wants to fight climate change by extracting CO2 from thin air. The gas can then be sold to carbonated drink and agriculture companies, or sequestered underground.

In 2013, Boyan Slat crowdfunded $2.2 million to fund the Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization that builds big, floating trash collectors and sets them out to sea, where they’re designed to autonomously gobble up garbage. The organization has since raised over $35 million and a lot of questions from incredulous experts.

Elowan is a cybernetic plant that can respond to its surroundings. Tethered by a few wires and silver electrodes, the plant-robot hybrid can move in response to bioelectrochemical signals that reflect the plant’s light demands.

In a new mission called Five Deeps, a team of explorers will brave the inhospitable depths of the world’s oceans, observing, mapping, and collecting samples along the way. The explorers aim to traverse 40,000 nautical miles over the course of a year.

Lab-grown meat is big business. A handful of enterprising startups have raised and invested hundreds of millions of dollars into nascent technology, banking on breakthroughs in biotech to revolutionize the food industry.

A Dutch company is developing a floating dairy farm, which they hope to use as a proof-of-concept for future agricultural systems. The farm will use automated cleaning and milking robots, while recycling waste into fertilizer. Later, they hope to include crops and other livestock.

Meet Amphibio: A 3D-printed garment designed to work like a set of gills. Why? Because if sea levels keep on rising, many of the land currently inhabited by humans will be underwater -- so artist Jun Kamei started building a potential solution. Could it really work though?

Ear on Arm is an ongoing endeavor by the artist Stelarc, whose eccentric performances put his squishy body in the indifferent grip of technology. Stelarc sees the modern body as a “chimera of meat, metal, and code,” and uses it both as the vessel of exploration and the uncharted territory to be explored.

Launched in 1992, Boston Dynamics has introduced some of the most advanced robots around, especially when it comes to replicating the movement of animals -- the most well-known of which are its series of canine-inspired machines.

The Earth BioGenome Project has an ambitious goal — to sequence the DNA of all plants and animals species on Earth. In doing so they hope to unlock secrets of evolution and help preserve the blueprint of species for perpetuity.

A team of engineers from the University of Tokyo has developed an ultrathin, breathable, and stretchable display that can be worn directly on the skin.

A huge solar flare could hit Earth in the next century, and these scientists think a massive loop of conducive wire could save us

Lilium says it has completed test flights on the world’s first electric vertical take-off and landing jet at a private airfield in Bavaria.

Startups are using intelligent machines to redesign the clinic, redefine the role of the practitioner, and reposition the patient in relation to her own health.

At NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge, Cornell University’s Cislunar Explorers aim to send its innovative water-powered satellite in orbit around the moon.

NASA wants to capture an asteroid and drag it back to Earth within the next decade, but yesterday said it will need some help to do so.

Many experts think Zayner’s project is careless and even dangerous. And, although Zayner's goal is to do good, they wonder if it’s worth the risk.

Toru is a line of automated warehouse robots whose creators hope will make the picking and shipping industry far more efficient.

Australian physicists developed a highly-specialized artificial intelligence that learned and recreated a Nobel-winning experiment.

Buffalo Trace's 2016 Experimental Collection opens with a whiskey aged in barrels that partner Independent Stave toasted with infrared light.

Eelume, the snakelike robot, will live on the ocean floor and help maintain deep sea equipment.

China plans to launch a spacecraft to the far side of the moon this month. The Chang’e-4 spacecraft is scheduled to take off from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan on December 8 carrying a lander and rover, which will touch down on the lunar surface.

Stephan Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg, and Yuri Milner announce Breakthrough Starshot, an ambitious project to reach Alpha Centauri

A NASA fellow and PhD student has developed a system of robots and AI that can autonomously grow crops in the harsh environments of space, including on Mars

SpaceX hopes to safely bring another Falcon 9 rocket home tonight after launching a Thai telecommunications satellite into a high-elliptical orbit.

NASA has awarded funding to California-based company Made in Space to develop technology that may see asteroids become self-propelled spacecraft

E.Deorbit will entail using either a net or a robotic arm to capture one of ESA's derelict satellites in low orbit and burn it up in an atmospheric reentry.

An Austin, Texas company, whose founders were commissioned by NASA to develop palatable foods for astronauts, has built a device that can 3D-print pizza.

Decommissioned objects in Earth's orbit can also be instructed to crash into a “spacecraft cemetery” once their service is complete.

Frank’s piece, titled, “Yes, There Have Been Aliens,” argues that, at some point before humans existed, there were probably aliens.

On Friday, Blue Origin will show their rocket launch on a live webcast for the first time. Bezos tweeted the announcement on Monday.