Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren't the same thing
Would you like paper or plasma? That's the question book lovers face now that e-reading has gone mainstream. And, as it turns out, our brains process digital reading very differently.Manoush Zomorodi,...
View ArticleChina is planning the world's largest carbon trading market —and could take...
A key senior Chinese official announced that the country will introduce a national carbon trading plan in 2016. If the trading program actually goes into operation, it will dwarf any similar efforts...
View ArticleShould we even call computer problems 'viruses' anymore?
We are fixated on viruses. They are in the news, in our vocabulary, in our military arsenal and in our hard drives.Ebola rages out of control in parts of Africa; in the US, Enterovirus D68 is sending...
View ArticleWhen environmental activists march in New York, look for immigrants at the...
On Sunday, people from across the country and around the world will converge at a corner of Central Park in New York City.They'll be taking part in the People’s Climate March, which organizers hope...
View ArticleTwo years later, Fukushima still reeling from tsunami's effects
Radioactive water is likely seeping into the Pacific Ocean — more than two years after a tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.Japanese officials have yet to...
View ArticleNew cups alert drinkers to presence of date rape drugs
It's been years since the first warnings against colorless, odorless, tasteless “date rape” drugs, and now one man is turning to tech to try and stop them.Michael Abramson first became motivated to...
View ArticleRed crayfish invades Pacific Northwest waterways
If you're a fan of Gulf Coast cooking, you probably love gumbo and jambalaya. But those spicy delights are hardly the first thing you'd expect to find on menus in the temperate Pacific northwest. That...
View ArticleOlinguito: New Carnivore, Found in a Drawer
It's no big deal to find a new species these days. Scientists are finding them almost everywhere they look.But most of them are bacteria and other microbes. It is rare to find an unknown vertebrate,...
View ArticleCampaign to Prevent People from Eating Octopus
In Britain, a national chain of aquariums is urging people to not eat octopus.According to campaigners, the marine animal have intelligence and problem-solving abilities comparable to dogs.Anchor Marco...
View ArticleBehind the Egyptian Crisis: Resource Stress?
The ongoing conflict in Egypt has deep roots in history, religion, politics and economics.But journalist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed says another underlying cause is a growing resource crisis–shortages of...
View ArticleThe Race to Secure Kazakhstan's 'Plutonium Mountain'
A remarkable 17-year effort by US & Russian scientists to secure an abandoned nuclear testing facility in Kazakhstan was finally completed last fall.Host Marco Werman speaks about the largely...
View ArticleDeadly MERS Virus Traced to Bats in Saudi Arabia
A deadly new SARS-like virus has been traced to bats.The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, has proven lethal in 60 percent of cases identified so far.A new study has found the virus is carried...
View ArticleStarbucks to Open First Shop in Coffee Rich Colombia
In the land where coffee is king, leave it to Starbucks to find a slice of the market.Yes, Starbucks has announced it's taking up shop in Bogota, Colombia. It says it wants to celebrate Colombian...
View ArticleHow the Dutch are Helping New Orleans Stay Dry
Eight years ago Thursday, "the storm" hit New Orleans.That's what people there still call it.The city hasn't had a storm as destructive as Hurricane Katrina since 2005.And numerous other disasters...
View ArticleGetting the Right Boots for Soldiers
When you think of military technology, you think of stealth Blackhawk helicopters, night vision goggles, state of the art sniper rifles and machine guns.That is the kind of military technology that...
View ArticleNokia to Sell Cell Phone Business to Microsoft
A Nokia Lumia 820 smartphone with Microsoft logo on the screen is shown in a photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, September 3, 2013. Two years after hitching its fate to...
View ArticleBritish Beekeepers Warned Asian Hornets are Coming
For our Geo Quiz – brace yourself for an invasion.It's a tiny, non-military invasion. But beekeepers in England, Scotland, and Wales are on alert all the same.After all, we're talking about something...
View ArticleNow Comes New Evidence that 'Strongly Suggests' the Syrian Government Carried...
While the US, Russia and other countries consider a plan that would see Syria turn over its chemical weapons, another group weighed in today on who might have carried out an alleged chemical attack...
View ArticleKenyans Drink a Little Easier With Discovery of 50 Billion Gallon Aquifer
Sometimes, the simplest things make the world of difference–like water. Kenya, along with a lot of other African countries, has suffered years of severe water shortages.It's now a water-stressed...
View ArticleTaxi sharing in NYC could be a godsend — but would New Yorkers go for it?
Researchers at MIT's Senseable City Lab have found that if New York City residents shared cab rides, they could dramatically shorten their trips while slashing the number of cabs on the street by 40...
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