The Truth Behind The EPA's Animas River Spill Is Messier Than You Think
Environment Despite best intentions, a toxic legacy roars back to life in Colorado On August 5, workers under EPA supervision were investigating the abandoned Gold King Mine in Colorado as part of a...
View ArticleNobel Prize In Chemistry Goes To 3 Scientists Who Uncovered DNA Repair
Health The discoveries of Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar could help fight cancer The wait is over for chemistry enthusiasts: today the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry prize was awarded to...
View ArticleThese Amazing Startups Aim To Save The World
Technology The 2015 Kairos Global Summit announces its winners “Everyone you meet will blow your mind,” the Kairos Society promised earlier this year when it introduced its pick of 50 innovative...
View ArticleKeystone XL Pipeline Company Requests Pause, But Is The Project Dead?
Energy TransCanada hopes a Hail Mary will work It’s a bit too late for Halloween, but in a move that suggests a Hollywood-style mad scientist putting a fresh corpse into suspended animation, the...
View ArticleThe First-Ever Breakthrough Prize Junior Winner Made This Cool Science Video
Science Ryan Chester's video won him and his school $400,000 from leading tech titans When high school student Ryan Chester heard that Silicon Valley’s prestigious Breakthrough Prize would include a...
View ArticleThe Selfie Of The Future Is A 3D Figure
Technology Selfie 2.0 Swiss Company, Dacuda, just unveiled an app that puts sophisticated 3D scanning technology in the hands of anyone with a smart phone and reasonable hand-eye coordination. Swiss...
View ArticleThe Nano Lightbulb
Science Young Duck Kim uses graphene in a novel way Kim has developed a nanoscale light-emitting device that can be put on a chip.
View ArticleThe scientist who is making 3D printing more human
DIY Madeline Gannon wants to unlock the designer in all of us. To put true creative power into the hands of any ordinary 3D printer owner, Gannon has developed an innovative new system called “Tactum".
View ArticleA smarter stethoscope
DIY With his company Eko Devices, Conor Landgraf is disrupting medical tools. According to Landgraf, until now, the stethoscope has never fully embraced the advantages of today’s digital and wireless...
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