Technology
Video: MIT's High-Tech Artificial Limbs
Can we make artificial limbs that are as good as-or better than-the originals?
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Lifestyle
Brooklyn's Habana Outpost is a Mecca of Food and Sustainability
From solar panels to a bike-powered blender, this Fort Greene eatery packs a delicious and environmentally-friendly punch.
Cities
In Portland, Open Data Makes It Easier to Get Around
By making public transportation data public, Portland, Oregon's TriMet system has fostered an explosion of useful information.
Design
In Mali, a $25 Projector Makes Adult Education Easier
Teaching adults to read in rural Mali, where many classrooms don't have electricity, is really hard. This brilliant $25 projector helps.
Environment
What a Green Job Looks Like
Buildings are actually responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars. But simply weatherizing houses and businesses can reduce their...
Design
Reaction Housing
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became obvious that America was frustratingly ill-prepared to house people displaced by a natural...
Design
Kinkajou Projector Brings Literacy to Mali
Teaching adults to read is a difficult enough task in and of itself, but in rural Mali, teachers also face classrooms without electricity and...
Environment
Attack of the Giant Jellyfish!
Giant jellyfish have invaded the northern coasts of the Japanese islands and they're causing problems. Frustrated local fishermen are hauling...
Look
Emergency in Mumbai? Dial 1298!
Americans take 911 for granted, but in many developing nations a centralized emergency telephone number is unheard of. In Mumbai, a private...
Design
Animal Superpowers
From cicadas who hibernate for 17 years to checkerboard-camouflaged cuttlefish, some animals have powers that border on the super. Artists...
Design
Hippo Rollers
In rural Africa, women spend 26% of their time fetching water, often walking for miles with heavy buckets balanced on their heads. That's time...
Environment
Pollen Bots
Seasonal allergy sufferers, rejoice! Japanese scientists have deployed an army of anthropomorphic pollen sensors across the country in an...
Environment
Eco-Gym
Chances are you go to the gym because it makes you feel good. But nothing kills that post-workout buzz like contemplating the environmental...
Environment
Salar de Uyuni
With an area about the size of New Jersey, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat is known as the flattest place on earth. So when NASA needs to...
Environment
Rooftop Bees
With space at such a premium in Manhattan, New Yorkers are accustomed to thinking vertically when it comes to housing. Now bees are getting in...
News
Cambodian Sports
Decades of war and internal strife have left Cambodia with one of the highest proportions of people disabled by land mines in the world. The...
Environment
Urban Aquaculture
Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare,...
News
Landmine Flowers
Scientists in Denmark have developed a plant that turns red when it comes into contact with trace amounts of TNT. If sowed over an area...
Business
Bikes to Rwanda
Lugging huge bags of coffee through the unpaved hills of Rwanda to a processing plant was back-breaking work for the Karaba coffee co-op. In...
