Oct 18 Chilecon Valley: Entrepreneurs very welcome EmbedVideo(7737, 514, 320); While United States immigration policy makes it difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visas to set up shop in the United States, Chile is welcoming them with open arms. Through an initiative called Start-Up… Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch ‘Mind-boggling’ skull discovery offers researchers a view into the ancient past The discovery of a 1.8 million-year-old skull at Dmanisi in Georgia has revolutionized scientists' idea of human evolution. Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss what these ancient remains… Continue watching
Oct 17 Toxic trash piles up fast on Rubbish Island in the Maldives .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }View Larger Map… Continue reading
Oct 17 Study links air pollution to lung cancer deaths Photo by Gianluca Di natale/Flickr It's not just cigarettes and their smoke that can give you lung cancer. According to a new international study, exposure to outdoor air pollution can also kill you. The… Continue reading
Oct 16 Researchers work towards a deep sea wireless network Photo courtesy of Flickr user miniyo73 Researchers from the University at Buffalo in New York, are using sound waves to create an "underwater wi-fi" network to improve tsunami detection. Wi-fi uses radio waves, which can penetrate water… Continue reading
Oct 16 This is how your cat sees the world Top photo is a human view. Bottom photo is a cat's view. Image by Nickolay Lamm What accounts for the difference? Cats' eyes are slightly more near-sighted compared to humans. They see in a 200-degree angle, compared to… Continue reading
Oct 16 Chasing the origins of the Gulf’s giant shrimp The invasive Asian tiger shrimp, which can grow as long as a human forearm and weigh as much as eleven ounces, has gained a foothold in Gulf of Mexico waters. Photo by Ryan Werner In the coastal town… Continue reading
Oct 15 Australian climate change researchers look to penguin poo .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } If you're going to study… Continue reading
Oct 15 Full-length video of Felix Baumgartner’s 24.2-mile jump released one year later .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Video by Red Bull… Continue reading
Oct 15 Help write women scientists into Wikipedia Long before the iPhone or Google were part of our everyday lives, Ada Lovelace penned what many consider to be the first computer algorithm. The 19th century programming pioneer made her mark on the early history of computer science… Continue reading