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Caleb Henry Space is no stranger to attention. Pursuing the heavens in any form is sure to turn heads, and with the increased momentum of private ventures, NewSpace is no […]
Developed by a team of Brigham Young students, the Owlet sends vitals -- including heart rate, temperature, and most notably, an alert in case the baby rolls over on their stomach -- to a smartphone app.
Fed up with British Airways' handling of his father's lost luggage, Hasan Syed took the matter to Twitter by complaining via its self-service advertisers' platform. It got the airline's attention, along with that of millions of others.
Finally, A Radically Different Inflation Technology That Doesn’t Suck The Fun Out Of Inflatable Gear
“Revolutionize the way we use air” is all that the team behind Windcatcher wants to do. Ryan Frayne, the inventor of the device, was inspired when he watched his brother […]
So I’m teaching a seminar this semester on Technology, Biotechnology, and Democracy. Its balanced effort, of course, will be show how technology makes our lives both better and worse, as […]
Numerous online tools are available to help you figure out your risk of a wide range of health outcomes; diabetes, stroke, heart disease, various kinds of cancer, (see Your […]
Starting next Monday (Sep. 9), Bradford Regional Medical Center will become the first US institution of its kind to offer a voluntary 10-day inpatient program.
A disquieting paper has been published in the journal Criminal Justice Ethics, that suggests the decisions of forensic scientists are being influenced by payments for convictions. The authors Roger Koppl […]
Cybersexism: Sex, gender and power on the Internet Laurie Penny Bloomsbury, 2013 (available from Amazon) Sexism – whether existing in meat- or cyberspace – is the noise people make who […]
Guest post by Curt Rees. The first day of the school year is here across the country, and my experience with school has been that the environment you establish at […]
Anyone who has lived through a hot summer day in the city understands that aggression levels can quickly spike with seemingly little explanation.
A Slate piece on education starts off by declaring, if you send your kids to private school you’re “a bad person.” Not “bad like Hitler,” but bad. I don’t want […]
Poor people's bad decision-making may be at least partly a result of their circumstances, not due to any intrinsic lack of intelligence.
Scientists in an Austrian lab have created complex human brain tissue from stem cells, creating what the scientific community are now calling "mini-brains."
People who solve problems in slightly disorderly environments are more likely to arrive at creative solutions.
A new study argues that the association between science and morality is so ingrained that merely thinking about it can trigger more moral behavior.
It's not so well known that being overweight (not merely obese) brings with it a cancer risk.
When breast cancer survivor Molly Lindquist decided she wanted to help others beat the same disease she had bested, she started to think big.
Research completed at the University of Navarra, Spain, suggests that a moderate level of wine drinking results in a lower risk of depression.
Researchers were surprised to learn that pollution created by road transportation proved deadlier than power generation stations.