While its unlikely to feature at the next Olympics, growing cucumbers is now somewhat of a competitive pursuit. The Autonomous Greenhouses Challenge will pit five international teams against each other, with the objective of delivering the highest...

N.Y.-based BrightFarms has gotten creative in granting consumer requests to tour its greenhouses. The company does not offer public tours, and it limits the number of people in its facilities for food safety reasons, but it recently embarked on a...

UbiQD, a New Mexico, US-based nanotechnology development company, has been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer Program contract by NASA. UbiQD stands for Ubiquitous Quantum Dots. The unspecified investment is intended to fund UbiQD's...