Paris moves to ban older, polluting cars from its streets
To reduce pollution in Paris, the city recently introduced new regulations that ban cars built before 1997 from the city center during workdays. The move is expected to reduce emissions of particulate...
View ArticleCars in the cloud
We may still be a few years away from being shuttled around by fully autonomous vehicles, but cars on the road right now already feature powerful processing equipment like video cameras and radar.And...
View ArticleHow can we save California's forests?
To say trees in California are having a tough time may be an understatement. Years of drought conditions and warmer temperatures have stressed millions of trees, and surging numbers of bark beetles,...
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There's a hospital in the United Arab Emirates that serves only falcons
Images of falcons are prevalent the moment you step into the United Arab Emirates. They're everywhere — on walls, in TV ads, even on bank notes.The falcon is UAE's national bird. And the Emiratis take...
View ArticleFrench website encourages women in parliament to share experiences of sexism
Sleazy French MPs beware. With sexual harassment in parliament in the spotlight after recent scandals, a new website launched Monday that encourages female staffers to recount lewd behavior or unwanted...
View ArticleHilter's birth house to be torn down in Austria
The house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born is to be torn down to stop it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine, authorities said Monday after years of bitter legal wrangling."The Hitler house will be...
View ArticleWhat your lips are saying about you
Notice any differences between the lips on the left, above, and on the right?Every single person sports a pattern of lines on their kisser. They’re laid down early in development and stay essentially...
View ArticleKeeping our planet cooler just got a little easier
It’s October, so a lot of people aren't thinking about air conditioning right now. But spare a thought for this wonderful modern convenience, because the way we cool our homes and businesses is going...
View ArticleThe 'Chinese Netflix' is taking on tech titans of America
A Chinese internet colossus referred to as a combination of Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Tesla announced Wednesday it is taking on US tech titans on their home turf.LeEco showed off smartphones,...
View ArticleDreamy Pakistani tea seller gains international attention and sparks debate...
A Pakistani tea merchant with velvet eyes saw his life changed this week when his portrait spread around the Internet, sparking ardent debates on class, objectification, and the place of ethnic...
View ArticleRather than entertain you, 'Napflix' aims to bore you to sleep
A Spanish video platform called Napflix, designed to put people to sleep with dull content, was launched this week and its founders are on the lookout for more "monotony and repetition."Napflix offers...
View ArticleOne astronaut says his career seemed unlikely, 'like growing up to be...
Mike Massimino is one of the few people on the planet who has looked back down on Earth from the Hubble Space Telescope, which is now about 340 miles above us in space. Massimino got this chance twice,...
View ArticleWhat happens in our brains when we look at art?
What goes through your mind when you pause at a museum to study a painting? No, really — what’s going on in your brain?Dr. Eric Kandel is fascinated by this question. A neuroscientist at Columbia...
View ArticleWhat’s the future of your commute?
For commuters in Manhattan, the ride-hailing service Uber now offers a $5 flat fare for carpooling with other riders headed in the same direction.Recently, the company inked a deal with the city of...
View Article'The Hidden Life of Trees' asks us to rethink our relationship to the world's...
Forests contain much more than meets the eye, according to German forester, and now author, Peter Wohlleben.In his thought-provoking book, The Hidden Life of Trees, Wohlleben writes that within the...
View ArticleUS climate scientist killed in Antarctica accident
We hear a lot these days about the big changes going on at the Earth's poles, as the ice caps there start to melt under rising global temperatures.We hear less about the risks that scientists take in...
View ArticleHow close are we to sending humans to Mars?
In a recent op-ed, President Barack Obama renewed his call, first made in 2010, for Americans to reach Mars by the 2030s. And in late September, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, gave a blockbuster speech...
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The climate for making beer is changing, so brewers and hops growers are, too
We all know that you need water to make beer. After all, beer’s up to 95 percent water. But you also need water to grow the other stuff that’s in beer, like barley and hops. Hops are the flowers of a...
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Venezuela's Maduro vows army takeovers of firms that go on strike
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro faced renewed pressure Friday as the opposition called for a nationwide strike, which he threatened to break with army takeovers of paralyzed firms.Up in arms over...
View ArticleThis Indian princess keeps her prized dinosaur egg wrapped in silk
One of princess Aaliya Sultana Babi's most prized possessions is a fossilized dinosaur egg she found in an area billed as "India's Jurassic Park."An unsuspecting villager was using the fossil to grind...
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