Let Your Crops Grow Indoors All Year Long With This Fully Automated Grow Box

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If you have a green thumb and are looking to grow indoors, the Grobo automated indoor grow box is like a Keurig machine for plants.

Grobo will grow all sorts of plants, including cannabis, with the touch of a button.

Grobo One - Hydroponic Grow Box

Grobo automatically adjusts water, light, temp, humidity, and nutrients to produce perfect plants.

This fully automated indoor grow box is 'the Keurig of plants'

The Grobo grow box is a fully automated smart hydroponic growing system designed to take the guesswork out of indoor horticulture.

This Fully Automated Indoor Grow Box Is ‘the Keurig of Plants’

The Grobo was developed for medical cannabis, but can be used for so much more.

Photosynthesis Board Game Review (How to Play)

Who knew a plant's life cycle could be so entertaining?

Photosynthesis is the strategy game that lets you take control of a forest ecosystem

Photosynthesis is a strategy game that puts between two and four players in control of their own living forests, guiding them through their life-cycles.

Photosynthesis Is the Strategy Game That Lets You Take Control of a Forest Ecosystem

It's innovative, entertaining, educational, and most of all, addictive. 

NASA is planning to grow chili peppers on the Space Station

My Eyes!

NASA has announced the first fruit to be grown in space before the end of this year: the humble Espanola chile pepper (capsicum annuum).

NASA Planning to Grow Chili Peppers on Space Station

"Just imagine having a fresh pepper to bite into after months of eating cardboard."

A variable-stiffness tendril-like soft robot based on reversible osmotic actuation

Creepy, crawly tendrils meet soft robotics.

This soft robot mimics plant tendrils to creep and climb

Creepy Crawly Robots

A new kind of soft robot mimics the way plant vines grow in order to creep, crawl, and climb over obstacles in its environment.

This Soft Robot Mimics Plant Tendrils To Creep and Climb

This little sprout has got places to go! 🌱

Extreme weather is preventing plants from processing carbon

CO2 Overload

New research shines a light on the importance of soil moisture in plants' ability to trap CO2 — and extreme weather events could hinder that ability.

Extreme Weather Is Preventing Plants From Processing Carbon

We could be on the brink of a climate tipping point.

Instead of ruining your paint job, your car could act like a big Etch-a-Sketch.

New self-repairing material could let you key your car just for fun

It's Alive

A new material harnesses photosynthesis to automatically plug holes and repair scratches with just air and sunlight. But it's not quite useful yet.

New Self-Repairing Material Could Let You Key Your Car Just for Fun

A new material regrows itself with air and sunlight by hijacking a plant's photosynthetic abilities.

The supposed benefit of climate change probably isn’t a benefit at all.

Spring might come earlier, but food shortages will still happen

Earth & Energy

Climate change affects food production by lengthening growing seasons, but shorter winters can do more harm than good in some instances.

Spring Might Come Earlier, but Food Shortages Will Still Happen

Longer growing seasons don't necessarily mean more crops. 

Air pollution has major impacts on human health.

China will plant 32,400 square miles of trees to combat air pollution

China has tasked 60,000 soldiers to increase the country's total forest coverage in an attempt to combat its serious air pollution problem.

China Will Plant 32,400 Square Miles of Trees to Combat Air Pollution

China has tasked nearly 60,000 soldiers to handle the job.

Humans have proteins that are structurally similar to LRR-receptor kinases, so new insights into the biological mechanisms of plants could help us, too.

Researchers have mapped out how plants sense our world

Hard Science

In a new study, researchers mapped out the interactions of around 200 of the proteins essential to plants complex sensory processing.

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