Once they are approved for commercial airspace, drones and the technology they carry stand to benefit farmers in a big way. Experts call it "precision agriculture."

Clean Lahore was created in response to a 2011 epidemic that sickened 20,000. Along with a dedicated public health campaign, the app helps officials monitor all efforts to stop the disease's spread.

Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, NY is one of the first in the nation to replace all 40 of its print textbooks with digital versions, accessible via a tablet or laptop.

Colorectal cancer, which is on the rise in all developed countries and many developing ones, may turn out to be caused by a bacterium. 

As I explained a couple of years ago, I lost interest in talking up Constitution Day when the government said we at colleges that get federal money are required to […]

A new image editing method will have graphic designers cheering and weeping in equal measure. The new technique lets you take a two-dimensional image, and with as little as three […]

Growing up, I fell in love with Science Fiction watching reruns of Star Trek, the version now known to fans as “The Original Series.” The storylines and (then state of […]

Last week, game developer Rovio launched Angry Birds Playground, an educational curriculum based on the Finnish national model and targeted towards kindergartners.

     Have you seen the Chipotle Grill animated video “The Scarecrow”?  More than four million people have, since it was first published last week. It’s a cry against unsustainable industrial […]

Citing the increase in abortions of female fetuses, students Sonya Davey, Samir Devalaraja and Neil Davey propose that companies with patents for genital-blurring ultrasound software file them in India, where sex determination is officially illegal.

We will be able to enhance the natural sensory capabilities that humans have, and I think this is where technology and the brain have a very fertile meeting ground.

Vienna's use of "gender mainstreaming" -- which takes the different experiences of men and women into account when making public policy decisions -- has helped to make the city more livable and accessible for everyone.

The "highly unusual" ruling from a Seville judge reflects the times, as the divorcing couple cited various economic issues that prevented them from living separately.

Inspirational leaders understand and can scale the distinction between doing something and, as capitalists, making money versus doing something in order to make money. 

What religions want to do is remind us of how kind we want to be.

Being only 12, Agrawal's version of an iRobot is not designed to do household chores but rather, deliver potato chips.

Manil Suri gives a full-throated defense of math as a field that is "about ideas above anything else." 

Thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission's Wide Angle Camera (WAC), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie has now been composed. 

The last disruptive innovation in the building industry happened in 1883 when Warren Johnson invented the thermostat, helping to launch the entire building control industry. This was 30 years after […]

Guest post by Kevin Flora It’s not every day that a student comes to you asking for advice, wanting to bounce an idea around, or just has a random question.  […]