Nov 19 4 innovative toilet designs to talk about on World Toilet Day By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins In honor of World Toilet Day, we have compiled a list of a few innovative toilet designs that show promise in helping to solve sanitation and ecological problems. Continue reading
Nov 12 Watch 8:45 Given Internet access, can kids really learn anything by themselves? By PBS News Hour It started with a hole in the wall. Sugata Mitra, working for a software company in Delhi, cut a gap between his firm and the slum next door, putting out an Internet-connected computer for kids in the community to use. Continue watching
Oct 22 Will you die prematurely? This blood test may contain the answer By Nsikan Akpan In a new study in Cell Systems, scientists present the possible reasons why a set of blood markers correlate with premature death in ostensibly healthy people. Continue reading
Oct 12 Can your 'brain fingerprint' reveal how smart you are? By Nsikan Akpan Neuroscientists at Yale University discover a way to identify individuals and predict their intelligence levels by using brain fingerprints based on functional MRI scans. Continue reading
Oct 08 Instead of a 'dislike' button, Facebook tests new set of reaction emojis By Joshua Barajas Facebook announced Thursday that it will test six new reaction emojis that express a range of emotions beyond the social network's iconic "like" button. Continue reading
Sep 15 Like this post: Facebook's working on a 'dislike' button By Joshua Barajas Recognizing that the “like” button isn’t appropriate for all occasions from deaths to various tragic stories, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company is building a “dislike” button for the site. Continue reading
Mar 25 Photo essay: DIY airplanes, submarines, Lamborghini and other homemade Chinese inventions By Laura Santhanam What do restaurants, gunpowder and paper money have in common? They were all invented in China. Continue reading
Feb 20 Will your job exist in the future, or will a robot have replaced you? By Simone Pathe In the long view of history, technological advancement unleashed by the Industrial Revolution has come to be seen as a net positive for economic development and everyone’s well-being, even those workers who initially lost their jobs. There’s reason to wonder,… Continue reading
Dec 18 Reinventing the way chemicals are made to make them cheaper and cleaner By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Scientists are changing the way chemicals are made to make new drugs, smart materials and agroproducts in a cleaner, safer way. Miles O'Brien has this report from "Science Nation."… Continue reading
Nov 21 Uber's boys club is what's wrong with Silicon Valley By Vivek Wadhwa Uber is one of the most hated companies in the technology industry, writes Vivek Wadhwa. But its disrepute is largely because of its arrogance and frat-boy behavior—not only its business practices. And this behavior is only slowing the company down. Continue reading