Would you live in a city made of bone?
The cities of today are built with concrete and steel – but some University of Cambridge researchers think that the cities of the future need to go back to nature if they are to support an ever-expanding population, while keeping carbon emissions under control.
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Watch NASA’s Juno Attempt to Enter Jupiter’s Atmosphere
On July 4th, NASA’s Juno spacecraft ends its five-year journey through space in a mission to study our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter.
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The One-Armed Robot That Will Look After Me Until I Die
As old age approaches, Geoff Watts confronts an inevitable future in the care of robots. But that doesn’t mean he likes it.
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During National Small Busines Week, Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Domestic Violence Survivors
As part of National Small Business Week, FreeFrom launched an incubator that helps survivors of domestic violence start their own businesses.
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Addressing India’s Sanitation Crisis
Anyone who has been to India has experienced the crisis in sanitation firsthand. Open defecation and its impact on water supplies have created a public health calamity that has caught the attention of the national and international leadership.
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Taxing Carbon Without Taxing The Economy
If the argument against climate action is that it will be bad for business, businesses are showing Congress that they are concerned about the costs of inaction.
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Forget Apps; The Next Wave of Innovation is in Clean Energy
The numbers coming out of the clean energy sector show that the conversation of our energy future should be focused on the opportunity for investors, entrepreneurs, and those willing to take the risk of jumping into this potentially disruptive industry.
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New Brain Research Shows You Really Need to Stop Bragging About How Little You Sleep
New research published in an upcoming issue of Scientific American reveals a previously undiscovered system for clearing the brain of proteins and other wastes—and in an important revelation for our over-exhausted society, this system is most active during sleep.
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The Triple Threats of Deforestation
There’s a lot of coal mining still happening under the world’s forests, and we know very little about where it is happening or its effects.
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A New Global Agenda: The Sustainable Development Goals
In September 2015, at the United Nations General Assembly, world leaders officially committed to a new development agenda, called the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs include 17 goals that fall under 3 overarching themes: end extreme poverty; fight inequality and injustice; and fix climate change.
Read MoreIan Bremmer, Eurasia Group: “Technology is the End of Oil”
Will the Fourth Industrial Revolution mean the end of work? The world leaders in Davos are not sure, but Ian Bremmer believes that it means the end of oil for certain.
Read MorePodcast: The Climate Impacts of Electronic Waste
Do you know where your computer goes after you get rid of it? Most people don’t.
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