Part urban farm, part skyscraper, these vertical greenhouses could provide large-scale organic food production in cities, with a much smaller energy and carbon footprint than industrial agriculture.
NASA has launched a fleet of missions to study the planets in our solar system -- many of which have sent back crucial information about magnetospheres.
Scientists have detected a powerful X-ray aurora hotspot near Jupiter's south pole and it does not behave how they expected.
Within two to three years, a collection system and modern recycling facility for PET bottles will start up in Ghana.
A new study outlines the “crazy idea” that led to a project described by one scientist as the “Google database for microbes.”
Researchers at Stanford University are developing a linear accelerator that is the size of a chip — instead of two miles long — and it could herald a medical breakthrough.
New Zealand is thinking about "an experimental humanitarian visa category" for people uprooted from their homes because of climate change.
Scientists have shortened X-ray pulses so dramatically that they can watch electrons move at a glacial pace.
Researchers have established a new world efficiency record for quantum dot solar cells, at 13.4 percent.
Over the last 800,000 years, pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 content remained below 280 ppm, but it has now risen to the 2016 global average of 403.3 ppm.
While far from an anti-aging cure, injections of ‘master regulator’ stem cells show promise in fighting symptoms of frailty.
Using data from the SuperWASP survey, an international team of astronomers has identified two new "hot Saturns" and one "Super-Neptune".
Chilean President signed a bill Wednesday that prohibits the sale of single-use plastic bags in 102 coastal villages and towns in a bid to stop the build-up of ocean plastic.
With water being its only emission, this groundbreaking new transit system in China emits no pollutants and creates its own power.
The government of New Zealand has just unveiled an ambitious set of environmental policies that are destined to take an aggressive stance against climate change in the future.
