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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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Unfortunately, it's not because governments are getting along with each other: Deep cuts in American and European spending were balanced out by spending increases in China and Russia.
So claims a new study that asked parents from different countries to describe their children and what they considered the "right way" to rear them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, American parenting styles stand apart.
And the parents of children who attend the K-8 school, located in the Ozarks, are mostly happy about it, especially since guns are considered a normal part of life.
The energy monopoly Gazprom is pushing for greater adoption of vehicles that run on natural gas. It helps that Russia is the world's second-largest producer of the stuff.
The government is going after 100 companies accused of exploiting young workers who are eager for experience. It's one of several efforts to expose abuses in what some say has become "a defining characteristic" of the Millennial generation.
Canadian scientists used MRI to observe brain activity when subjects listened to music they never heard before. The reward center of the brain lit up in response to music they liked.
In the multiplayer game League of Legends, players who use abusive language can see their words used against them in a court of their peers. The technology behind this jury can be applied to other online communities.
It may sound obvious, but security experts warn that as hacking technology becomes more sophisticated, employees should take care not to reveal too much when they're away.
The clumsily-named (by one exec's own admission) Inactive Account Manager will take action on a user's Google footprint if they haven't logged in within a specified period of time.
HealthTap allows users to pose questions to a network containing thousands of physicians. In addition to providing affordable advice, the service gives doctors a way to grow their online reputation.
The project, called RoomE, uses off-the-shelf hardware and custom-designed software to create an environment in which the computer is always watching and responds to both voice and gesture commands.
A San Francisco-based company is planning to ship its super-thin, polymer-based haptic keyboard to manufacturers next year. It offers the sensation, and even the sound, of pressing keys.
A team of researchers has figured out a way to use nanotechnology to create images at the highest dots-per-inch resolution possible. Such images could be used for anti-counterfeiting or high-density data encoding.
Coming to a highway near you, sometime in the next decade: Large trucks, traveling single-file, separated from each other by a mere few meters, controlled only by the driver in front.
Researchers turned to an old Balkan folk remedy to create synthetic surfaces that employ tiny hair-like fibers to trap the insects.
The report, presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, follows studies warning of the presence of arsenic and possibly other heavy metals.
Nuclear engineering student Russell Goff thinks so...and he's just formed a company to turn spent fuel rods into components to be used in a safe sterilization facility.
According to a new study published in this week's Nature, icy particles inside the rings erode into the upper atmosphere and eventually form rain water that falls on parts of the planet.
Scientists are getting closer to understanding how "dark lightning" produces bursts of gamma rays that may come in contact with a plane's passengers and crew.
According to a new study, the frequency and intensity of clear-air turbulence affecting transatlantic flights will increase significantly by 2050...and yes, we do have climate change to thank for it.