Heston Blumenthal will take his scientific cooking into a whole new dimension – when he serves a test tube burger made of laboratory-grown beef. The chemistry-conscious celebrity chef is about to meet his match in Dr Mark Post, who is ready to create the burger using bovine muscle and fat stem cells. The plan is for Blumenthal to cook it for a mystery...

Many places in the world face a shortage of drinkable water, and the situation is getting worse rather than better. When there’s not enough naturally occurring fresh water, various desalination processes become attractive technological solutions. The most recent estimate of desalination prodution that I’ve seen—dating back to 2007—was about 30 billion...

Vertical farming is a concept of cultivating plant or animal life within skyscrapers, or on vertically inclined surfaces. The idea of a vertical farm has existed at least since the early 1950s and built precedents are well documented by John Hix in his canonical text “The Glass House”   The Solar Panel This solar panel rotates to follow the...