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These Indian women said they could protect their local forests better than...
Even the monsoon rains don’t keep the women of Ghunduribadi, a tiny tribal village in India’s eastern state of Odisha, from patrolling the nearby forest at dawn.Clad in colorful saris and armed with...
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Brutal Bronze Age battle discovery changes understanding of history
A deadly wave of arrows fell from the sky, opening the battle. Men screamed and fell, as the flint and bronze arrowheads struck deep into their bones. Some slipped from the bridge and sank beneath the...
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The Swedes want North American lobster out. And the Americans are fighting back.
If you ask the Swedes, there's been an underwater invasion happening for years. And they want to do something about it.In the past eight years, Sweden has found more than 30 North American lobsters in...
View ArticleDid an Israeli digital forensics firm unlock the San Bernardino attacker's...
US officials spent months trying to force the technology giant Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by San Bernardino, California, attacker Syed Farook.Apple refused. The Feds sued. And now the FBI has...
View ArticleUber is expanding in Africa — and so are anti-Uber protests
Uber is expanding in Africa. The ride-hailing app launched in the cities of Abuja, Nigeria and Mombasa, Kenya on Wednesday.These are the 399th and 400th world cities where the service operates.But just...
View ArticleWhy Singapore is ground zero for the robot car revolution
It’s a tiny, flat, wealthy island where the locals adore technology. It’s also ruled by authoritarian technocrats who can push through daunting proposals with ease.There are few places in the world...
View ArticleHow scientists might be able to eliminate disease-spreading mosquitoes from...
In the next few months, a genetically modified mosquito may be heard buzzing around the Florida Keys. The US Food and Drug Administration recently granted preliminary approval to release OX513A,...
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How a couple's Fitbit told them they were expecting
Wearable fitness trackers are all the rage. Far more sophisticated than mere step counters of old, these high-tech devices (Fitbits are one of the more popular brands) are worn on your wrist and...
View ArticleA Chinese funeral parlor is using 3-D printing to help the dead look their best
If you're worried about what you'll look like when you're dead, a Chinese funeral parlor has got you covered.The Longhua funeral home in Shanghai is using 3-D printing technology to restore body parts...
View ArticleHow a Communist island nation became a biotech powerhouse
For years, Cuba’s Fidel Castro invested in the creation of its own medical industrial complex. Now Cuba is considered to be major developer of vaccines and other important medical treatments.Jose...
View ArticleCan we accurately gauge the impact of climate change on extreme weather?
While scientists have long avoided attributing specific extreme weather events to changes in global climate, a recent report suggests that some of these events can be attributed to climate change with...
View ArticleA close encounter of the underwater kind
Marine scientists have spotted a pod of more than 80 North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Cape Cod. It’s pretty extraordinary when you realize there are only about 500 North Atlantic right...
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A Viking village in Canada, spotted from space
Newly discovered ruins offer tantalizing, if preliminary, evidence that Vikings may have ventured farther south into North America than previously thought.Evidence at an archaeological site in southern...
View ArticleThis art installation pokes fun at NASA, space exploration and sculpture
NASA is a fairly serious government agency tasked with such difficult feats of science as launching humans into outer space, and exploring the unknown reaches of the solar system. For New York-based...
View ArticleAs many as 13.1 million US residents could be displaced this century by...
A new study published recently in Nature Climate Change takes population growth into account when trying to understand the impact of climate change, and the results are startling.As many as 13.1...
View ArticleHumanity must use innovation and ingenuity to live within ‘planetary...
From global warming to water shortages, humans are pushing up against a few fundamental "planetary boundaries," according to a newly published book.Called Big World, Small Planet, the book is by Johan...
View ArticleThese researchers have figured out a new way to kill cancer cells
How do you get a cancer cell to gobble up a ball of anticancer drugs and for a direct kill? Cancer researcher Mauro Ferrari says he and his team have finally figured out how to elude a tumor cell’s...
View Article9 statistics that explain the magnitude of the Panama Papers
Thanks to one anonymous leaker, several hundred journalists and 2.6 terabytes of data, we’re learning a lot about how the world’s most powerful people and institutions exploit offshore tax havens to...
View ArticleWhy a famous biologist wants to eradicate killer mosquitoes
E.O. Wilson occupies a special place in the science world. Not only the world's most famous entomologist, he's a big thinker with a knack for stirring up controversy.He founded the field of...
View ArticleCreative block? Here’s the neuroscience of how to fix that.
What is it exactly that helps us be creative? What fuels us when we get into an especially productive work flow? What makes the hours disappear when our brains focus on a task?What, in other words, is...
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