Farmers in Bangladesh are adapting to climate change, and it’s having an impact in faraway places—including on restaurant menus.

If we want to have a say in what the future looks like, scholars and policymakers need to start thinking about workplace automation far more broadly, according to a new paper co-authored by a Cornell researcher.

Researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate how many species could be gone by 2070.

The meat industry, as it stands, leaves our planet vulnerable to a plethora of diseases and crises. Plant-based products could provide a safer future.

Creativity isn't the only route to discovery – automated analysis of huge amounts of data works too.

A generator can briefly light up 100 LED bulbs with a single drop of water.

A nation of takeout deliverers

Taking a thin film common in cell phone touchscreens, researchers have used liquid metal chemistry to shrink it from 3D to 2D. The ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material could be printed and rolled out like newspaper, for the touchscreens of the future.

It’s much harder to move fast and break things when you’re not allowed to move at all.

Most will make you optimistic about the future. One will prep you for a dystopian, alternate universe. Just in case.

Our modern society relies upon complex, modern supply chains for food. How would we cope if they were to suddenly collapse?

Whoever wins it will have an advantage in every conflict around the world.

Here are a few ways that humanity may be able to leave the cradle of Earth.

Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Google, has released an experimental platform called Assembler to help journalists and front-line fact-checkers quickly verify images.How it works: Assembler combines several existing techniques in academia for detecting common manipulation techniques, including changing image brightness and pasting copied pixels elsewhere to cover up something while retaining the same visual texture.

A civil engineer looks at traffic data to improve road safety

Ideas from economics might help us decide the most ethical way of using gene editing technology for human enhancement in the future.

New vision technology could soon allow humans to take a step into the animal kingdom.

A Nucor steel plant in Missouri will be the first in the U.S. powered by wind energy, while an old steel facility in Colorado is transitioning to solar from Xcel Energy. These renewable-energy sources for recycled steel will make a dent in steel's carbon footprint. The industry contributes as much as 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

A video explainer on the technology that’s changing the meaning of the human face.

“Do I think Apple and Google and Amazon can do a better job? A thousandfold.”