Private equity firms are changing the game. Instead of relying only on traditional advantages, they are building consumer ecosystems that power themselves over time.

A fruit tree guild sets all your plants up for optimal growth by creating a mini-ecosystem. Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, ...

Energy is regarded as one of the most critical challenges for static and mobile pervasive sensor networks. It not only limits a network's operating lifetime but also causes a performance bottleneck.

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Consumers are viewing high-rises as islands of excellence that offer solutions to urban living, such as assured availability ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in sectors like agriculture, logistics, and manufacturing industries, where the journey ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...