It is estimated that by 2050, up to 50% of the regions currently producing the world's coffee will no longer be able to support the crop's growth. This will likely result from rising temperatures that help spread a disease known as coffee rust, plus alternating droughts and floods that will make farming the crop much more difficult.

So what does the future hold for coffee? Hybrid plants aren't the answer, as coffee rust will evolve to overtake resistant genes, so Seattle startup Atomo has found a long-term solution that ditches the coffee bean entirely. They broke down coffee into a thousand molecular compounds in an attempt to reverse-engineer its aroma, body, color, taste, and caffeine.