May 10 Asthma patients breathe easier with new bluetooth inhalers By Andrew Wagner Thanks to advances in Bluetooth technology, smartphones have turned into the newest weapon in the fight against asthma. Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch 7:27 This innovator is trying to make sanitary pads affordable for women in India By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Mike Fritz Arunachalam Murugananthan is known as India's pad man. Breaking a strict taboo in India's tradition-bound society, Murugananthan worked to perfect an affordable sanitary pad in hope of starting a movement to help women in the developing world. Special correspondent Sam… Continue watching
Apr 14 To save lives, supercomputers dive into the hearts of nature’s worst tornadoes By Julia Griffin Leigh Orf chases tornadoes across America’s central plains, but not from inside a pickup truck. He creates computer simulations of supercell thunderstorms -- and the twisters they spawn -- from the safety of his lab. Continue reading
Apr 03 Watch 7:02 Tackling India’s towering landfills takes cultural innovation By PBS News Hour In Delhi, India, the capital of the world's fastest growing economy, there's a towering symbol of the environmental cost of development: tons of festering, toxic trash, piled up 10 stories high, with more and more added every day. Efforts have… Continue watching
Mar 23 Google Street View can now map invisible gas leaks in your city By Andrew Wagner Ecologists at Colorado State University outfitted Google’s fleet of Street View cars with special methane detectors to spot gas leaks. Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch 6:26 Typing sentences by simply thinking is possible with new technology By PBS News Hour For decades, researchers have worked to find and create more direct connections between the human brain and computers. New groundbreaking technology may now help improve the lives of people who are paralyzed or experience severe limb weakness due to illness… Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch 4:38 When smart devices are always on, vulnerability may be a trade-off of convenience By PBS News Hour WikiLeaks' release of a trove of documents about the CIA's ability to breach smartphone and TV encryption was a revelation of potential vulnerabilities that surprised many. Hari Sreenivasan separates fact from fiction about their capabilities to take advantage of those… Continue watching
Mar 07 Want to cut carbon emissions? Try growing cement bricks with bacteria By Nsikan Akpan, Matt Ehrichs A North Carolina startup grows "biocement" bricks to circumvent the hefty load of fossil fuels needed for normal cement. Continue reading
Feb 24 This new Barbie hologram toy is actually an old magician’s trick By Andrew Wagner Last week's New York Toy Fair introduced a number of new toys to consumers. One of the biggest hits: Toys that play with light. Continue reading
Feb 16 ‘Eagle eye’ lenses may inspire hi-def cameras as thin as a strand of hair By Andrew Wagner Miniature lenses that mimic the eyes of predatory birds could shrink a camera’s size to less than 1/100th of an inch -- and in the meantime, revolutionize a host of compact technologies. Continue reading