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Two designers are using unlikely materials -- the shell of a common water pest and a bio-ethanol waste product -- to create a new generation of bioplastics.
Psychiatry's bible is also its worst enemy.
The parents have to go well outside of their comfort zone.
We live in a curious moment when medical progress is making it possible to eliminate many conditions exactly as social progress is making it possible to celebrate them.
The premise of many business books is to boldly go where no business book has ever gone before, to gather more data, to interview more executives, to read more articles […]
If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability.
Neon and fluorescent lighting. Radio. Electric motors. Robotics. These are just a few of the inventions of the Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla that he never got credit for during his lifetime.
Should steroid use be considered, as the philosopher Alva Noe has argued, a natural extension of our technological lives?
While Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley busy themselves making every aspect of our lives more efficient (except, perhaps, for the process of discovering these new technologies, learning them, and integrating […]
This is hardly a breakthrough delivery system. What it represents, however, is a clever application of a technology that has high novelty value.
This past week at The Hill newspaper, Ben Geman analyzed President Obama's speech on climate change, highlighting remarks from environmentalists who welcome Obama's apparent shift in communication strategy. In the […]
Long assumed to be a sterile environment, Lake Vostok may very well host a living ecosystem, according to a new study. If life exists there, it may exist on other planets with similar conditions.
A new Kickstarter campaign seeks $200,000 to propel a CubeSat into Earth orbit and eventually deep space using a miniature propulsion engine.
Capitalism forces nations to compete for market share, natural resources and human capital. Less obvious so, they also compete for names, brands and terminologies.
Researchers speculate that the forest, located just off the coast of Alabama, was buried under sediment for over 50,000 years before being revealed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"Morsi is an idiot," says a friend of mine. "But he should have been voted out." Like many people I know, he can't endorse the military overthrow of a man […]
“Sure, today's Olympics are corrupt, rife with cheating, and riddled with scandal, but at least today's games aspire to the noble ideals of the ancient Greeks—amateurism, fair play, and peace,” […]
Wendy Luhabe explains how her mother, who refused to be a victim of circumstance, is the person who gave her a passion for mentorship.