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Ingenious Invention for Homeless People Brings Community Together
At one time in his life, after a divorce, Gary Pickering was homeless. Now, Pickering is building small, portable 'micro-houses' for people living on...
18-Year-old’s Invention Can Charge a Cell Phone in 30 Seconds
An 18-year-old girl from California may have solved the most annoying problem confronting her fellow teens and she earned an Intel Foundation Young Scientist...
Boy Scares off Lions With Flashy Solar Invention
A 13-year-old Massai boy in Kenya has invented an ingenious system to scare off the lions that were killing his family's livestock. Living on...
Student, 17, Wins $100,000 Scholarship for Cancer Treatment Invention
You can't put a price on the importance of medical innovation, but $100,000 will do nicely for a Cupertino, California high school senior.
Angela Zhang...
Garage Invention Turns Restaurants Into Power Plants
Invented in a garage, a new generator burns the used oil from restaurants' deep fryers to generate electricity. The first Vegawatt is being...
Hard Up Man Makes £36 Million for Simple Zip Tie Invention
Television contestant Andrew Harsley won't be strapped for cash anymore - after a £36million deal for a little plastic tie. The "amazingly simple" device...
20 Muslim Inventions that Shaped Our World
1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World is an exhibition which began a tour of the UK this week at the Science...
Revolutionary New ‘Living Plastic’ That Could Slash Damage to the Environment Developed by California Researchers
Scientists believe they've found a way to make plastics more durable and biodegradable by adding bacterial spores that have been put through evolutionary rigors.
This...
Good News in History, May 1
217 years ago today, the Slave Trade Act of 1807 entered into force in Great Britain, abolishing the British participation in the Transatlantic Slave...
Good News in History, April 25
70 years ago today, Bell Labs finished the first functional solar cell, allowing for a panel of metal and glass to refract light and...
Researchers Create Nanogenerator Capable of Using Greenhouse Gas to Produce Electricity
University of Queensland scientists had a remarkable eureka moment when they accidentally turned the most common greenhouse gas into electricity.
By using positive and negative...
In Time for Tax Day: 10,000 Ancient Bamboo Slats Reveal Meticulous Details of Governance from Famous Period
An ancient trove of literary records, the kind that simply does not come about in Western archeology, was found in an old well in...
Subtle, Imperceptible Tweaks at HarperCollins have Saved 245 Million Pages–Equal to 5,618 Trees
At HarperCollins, a lot of attention and thought is given to deciding exactly what combinations of margin measurements, font, and layout feel most appropriate...
Good News in History, April 3
Happy Birthday to Dame Jane Goodall who turns 90 years old today. The beloved British primatologist first observed chimpanzees creating tools in 1960 (and...
New Solar-Powered Desalinator Keeps Producing Clean Water Without Needing Sunshine
Scientists have developed a new solar-powered system to convert saltwater into fresh drinking water which they say could help reduce dangerous the risk of...
Good News in History, March 27
76 years ago today, a mere 11 days after being released from prison, jazz singer Billie Holiday played in front of a sold-out crowd...
Good News in History, March 18
100 years ago today, the classic silent film The Thief of Baghdad, written by and starring Douglas Fairbanks, debuted in cinemas. Freely adapted from...
Your Horoscope for the Week – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Good News in History, March 16
184 years ago today, Shibusawa Eiichi was born in Japan. Known as "The Father of Japanese Capitalism" this economist and industrialist introduced Western free...
High School Student Invents an A.I. Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies
A New Jersey high school senior has won a place as a finalist in the nation's most prestigious science fair with a clever new...