Bottled Canadian air, started as a novelty, takes off in China
Troy Paquette and Moses Lam started their company on a bit of a lark.The Edmonton, Canada-based co-founders of Vitality Air put a sealed plastic baggie full of air from the Canadian Rockies online to...
View ArticleShould we use art or science to explore the origins or the universe?
On any given day, 2,000 scientists and engineers work at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.They’re analyzing data coming out of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's...
View ArticleThese are the science books of 2015 that you should be reading
Was there a science, technology, or environmental book from 2015 that made you think, laugh, or gape in amazement? Now’s the time to celebrate it.Here are some of the best science books of 2015, as...
View ArticleIt's Canada (again)! This time, it's helping to lead the way to fix the...
When Canada's newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to Paris to participate in the worldwide environmental negotiations, he brought with him a clear message: Canada is now backing federal...
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How virtual reality might change the world
Until recently, virtual reality was the stuff of science fiction. But last year, Facebook placed a large bet on the future of the medium when it bought Oculus Rift, the leading virtual reality...
View ArticleUK flooding is 'like stepping back 100 years'
More rain is in the forecast for later this week in the north of England and that is terrible news for people there.Parts of Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire are under water. Several thousand people...
View ArticleThe most important work at COP21 may have happened out of the spotlight
At the Paris climate conference, the primary focus was on the negotiators who represented more than 190 countries working to hammer out an agreement. But an equally, if not more, important process...
View ArticleHow he caught the wave ... of predicting surf
It all begins with a storm — a typhoon sweeping past the Philippines, a tropical cyclone growing near Australia, or a hurricane building along the Mexican coast. These are sources of swell, an...
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Why energy-saving settings may be bad for the environment
Volkswagen’s deceptive engine controls, uncovered a few months ago, gave its cars a dual personality: one for everyday operation and a secret, greener one used to rank higher than warranted on vehicle...
View ArticleWhy tech-savvy Indians are mad at Mark Zuckerberg
Free access to the Internet might sound like a nice holiday gift — especially in developing countries, where billions of people still can’t get on the web.But in India, when Facebook tried to give away...
View ArticleSaving the planet depends on saving its tropical forests. Can we do it?
Saving the world’s tropical forests was a central element of the climate change agreement that emerged from COP21 in Paris. Delegates from all nations seem to have finally reached consensus on one...
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Want to install solar panels but can't? No problem.
Coming up with a climate agreement in Paris last month, getting nearly 200 countries to commit to lowering their greenhouse gases, well, that was the easy part. Now nations have to actually achieve...
View ArticleHow do we save the Internet for history? This group is trying.
There is a building in northern San Francisco that looks like a cousin to the Acropolis in Greece. It used to be a Christian Science church.Now, however, it houses 26 petabytes of digital information...
View ArticleWant to be an astronaut? Here’s your chance.
For the first time since 2011, you can apply to be a US astronaut. The job listing went up last month at usajobs.gov. NASA chief and former astronaut Charles Bolden says the application requirements...
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How we can shrink the environmental cost of moving our stuff from source to...
Much of the stuff around us at any given moment — be it product, commodity or raw material — was once on a boat. To get from wherever it was made or processed or harvested to wherever it’s used or...
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Could Russia be the first nation to send a woman to the Moon?
Deep space travel has always been something of a Russian specialty — at least the simulated kind. The Russian space agency has been testing the effects of deep space on its cosmonauts since the Soviet...
View ArticleDesperately seeking names for new elements
For anyone studying chemistry, there's big news: Four new entrants to the periodic table.If you really can't remember that far back, the periodic table is that cool chart in science class that displays...
View ArticleAfter six years in prison, an Iranian blogger sees a very different Internet
Hossein Derakhshan didn't expect to find himself in an Iranian prison, but that's where he spent from late 2008 to November 2014. He was sentenced to 20 years for political writing, as well as...
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As apps and online tools connect users with the outdoors, we walk a fine line...
Around 7:30 on a 60-degree morning in early November, Cornell University ornithologist Marshall Iliff parked in the upper lot of Millennium Park, outside of Boston, and started walking.Over the next...
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The joy of cooking — with cow dung
In December, our Across Women's Lives team traveled to Kenya to report on women #OwningIt in the business world.For one of our stories, we drove north of Nairobi to meet Joseph Lentunyoi, a Kenyan...
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