“Knowing something is probably an obsolete idea.” We’re still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries–like the ones in this video–have plans to take our advances in computing and technology and use [...]

A liquid-nitrogen car is likely to be considerably cheaper to build than an electric vehicle A COUPLE of dozen electric cars with fuel cells under the bonnet (in place of the more usual flat-pack of [...]

False information is pervasive and difficult to eradicate, but scientists are developing new strategies such as “de-biasing,” a method that focuses on facts, to help spread the truth A recurring red herring in the current [...]

What newspapers don’t say matters as much as what they do IF ALL the stories in the newspapers claiming that a cure for cancer is just around the corner were true, the dread disease would [...]

Instead of slow, incremental change from the business community, we need to fundamentally reorder the entire system. And right now may be the only opportunity. There are periods of creative destruction when an old, dying [...]

This project is intended to bring good drinking water to the families in the developing countries at no operating cost Designer Gabriele Diamanti has created a solar oven called the Eliodomestico that can make salt [...]

  The disposal of used plastics – which are largely non-biodegradable – is a major environmental issue.   ‘Bioplastics‘ that are naturally synthesized by microbes could be made commercially viable by using waste cooking oil [...]

Just-released Nature paper shows more strategic use of nutrients and water on a global scale could boost production 45 to 70 percent for most crops Can we have enough to eat and a healthy environment, too? Yes—if [...]

Could see a reduction in costs to society of 38 percent through a sharp cut in associated health-care and climate-change costs. Refrigerating coal-plant emissions would reduce levels of dangerous chemicals that pour into the air [...]

Greenland‘s massive ice sheet has melted at a record-setting pace this year–and summer isn’t over yey Greenland’s massive ice sheet is melting at a record pace this summer. By Aug. 8, this year’s summer melt [...]

Looking at human beings as ecosystems that contain many collaborating and competing species could change the practice of medicine If the microbiome does turn out to be as important as current research is hinting, then [...]

Rice that can survive around 2 weeks of being under water Amidst horrendous flooding around Manila and major rice-growing across Luzon in the Philippines, some good news has emerged for rice farmers – Submarino rice [...]