Researchers have found a way to culture cells in a lab and produce leather that's biologically identical to that made from animal skin.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has an alternative idea about how to pave a commercial highway to space.
The egg-shaped plane, called Lilium, has been heralded as high up as the European Space Agency. The plane, designed by four German engineers, takes off and lands vertically, meaning it can use helipads.
Against signs of global intolerance - such as Brexit - the proper answers are cosmpolitanism, art and solidarity
Wageningen University scientists determined four of the crops they cultivated in Mars-like soil are in fact edible.
Unlike a conventional cremation, the process does not release carbon dioxide or other pollutants into the atmosphere.
It's happening: as early as later this year, the gene-editing power tool CRISPR could be used in its first ever human trial.
One of the latest innovations in the 3D printing world comes from a preteen who created a 3D printer using a 3D -rinting pen and a Lego Mindstorms EV3.
Of the 15 nations to fully ratify the Paris climate agreement on the day it was signed in April 2016, 13 were tropical island states.
While orbiting the sun, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has taken a look back at Earth, to also find Mars and Pluto in shot.
Bangladeshi city Rajshahi took steps like planting trees and introducing battery-powered rickshaws to dramatically cut air pollution.
Scania truck first to drive two-kilometre "e-highway" on the E16 motorway in Sweden in major step towards sustainable transport.
Dutch firm topped out the Tianjin Binhai Library, which features a gigantic eye-like space at its heart.
New images confirm the presence of a dark vortex on Neptune. Though similar features were seen during the Voyager 2 flyby of NASA
The discovery power of the gene chip is coming to nanotechnology. Researchers have figured out how to make combinatorial libraries of nanoparticles in a very controlled way. Some of the nanoparticle compositions have never been observed before on Earth.
