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Kecia Lynn
Kecia Lynn has worked as a technical writer, editor, software developer, arts administrator, summer camp director, and television host. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is currently living in Iowa City and working on her first novel.
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Handwritten as in "no bubbles": Next school year, copier giant Xerox plans to roll out its Ignite software to interested schools. It can grade almost any kind of paper, including essays.
After thousands of years, including two centuries of industrialization, steelmaking methods are reaching their physical limits. A group of scientists suggests a cheaper, cleaner alternative using electrolysis.
Seventeen-year-old Jennie Lamere's Twivo beat out the competitors to claim "Best in Show" at a recent TVNext hackathon.
Not just clean, but cheap: Researchers in India say that for less than US$3 per year, a rural family could have at least 10 liters of safe water each day using their device.
The Eidos goggles and mask isolate and amplify certain inputs so that, for example, someone standing at the back of a crowded auditorium can hear a speaker as clearly as if they were sitting in the front.
Spacewarps.org is the newest project requesting public assistance with finding unusual astronomical objects: in this case, systems containing massive galaxies that bend light around them.
New research breathes life into an earlier theory about a possible connection between cosmic rays and the triggering of lightning during thunderstorms.
According to NASA officials and other experts, meeting President Barack Obama's directive will require clearing some significant technological hurdles.
While recent focus has been on finding an Earth-like exoplanet in a system's "Goldilocks zone," one astrophysicist suggests that that zone might be made wider by taking other atmospheric conditions, such as greenhouse gas amounts, into account.
A group of hobbyists has embarked on a project that involves inserting synthetic DNA into plants to turn them into light sources. Needless to say, environmentalists are concerned.
With a new ad campaign, the children's charity may be one of the first of its kind to openly challenge social media participants.
Possibly...if the success of a Kickstarter campaign for the NPR/PRI show "Planet Money" is any indication. However, some say that it's just a more modern way of how things have always been done.
Given the amounts of data each of us generates in a given year, we may soon be approaching the point where true anonymity will be "algorithmically impossible."
While it's not the first attempt to bring writers and researchers together for brainstorming, the Hieroglyph project's focus is on producing aspirational outcomes at a time when darker fictional futures are in the spotlight.
At a recent event, a Qualcomm executive demonstrated how scattering small cellular base stations among homes in a neighborhood could provide users with stronger signals and more efficient data transmission.
University of Iowa researchers found that test subjects who played a particular video game for at least 10 hours exhibited a delay in cognitive processing loss by several years.
Or, more precisely, 11¾: The UK's National Trust has released its second annual list of 50 things for young people to do out in nature.
If, as a new study claims, they can be clustered along specific routes and set for certain times of the day, home deliveries are much more environmentally friendly than individual trips to the store.
Designed with poor communities in mind, the $40 GiraDora works similarly to a salad spinner and allows its user to sit down, avoiding the pain associated with transporting water and washing clothes by hand.
Hedonometer.org, created by a team of University of Vermont mathematicians, provides daily estimates of the global mood based on a random sampling of 50 million tweets.