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Winner of 2021 Dyson Award Goes to First Ever Device to Monitor Glaucoma Symptoms From Home
The 2021 winners of the International James Dyson Award were announced, presented to young engineers whose devices might make the world a brighter place—like...
Company Innovates Microplastics That are Biodegradable or Don’t Break Apart At All
A UK-French startup just announced a $17 million funding round to make a variety of products that will allow large producers to cut out...
Cozy Dining Cabins Made From Plastic Bottles Withstood the NYC Hurricane And May Be Future of Disaster Relief
A design for plastic bottles that can be linked together has caught on as a revolution in disaster relief. Called Friendship Bottles, they have...
Kuwait is Transforming its Massive ‘Tire Graveyard’ into a New Green City
A landfill of 42 million tires in the sands of Kuwait is finally being cleaned up and recycled.
This news in itself would be a...
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Company to Clean Up Space Debris
An Apple co-founder is launching a company to clean up space debris, and not a moment to soon, as NASA estimates there may have...
Youth is Fighting Microplastic Pollution with Magnetic Liquid After Winning Google Science Fair
A young Irishman has come up with his own "cool science-y method" to solve the microplastic pollution conundrum, winning Google's international science fair in...
Scientists Work to Turn the Tide of Oyster and Seagrass Decline in Chesapeake Bay, Often by Hand
The Chesapeake Bay has, despite massive setbacks, continued to return to something resembling a healthy estuarine ecosystem, in no small part because of the...
Explorer Who Found Many Iconic Shipwrecks Like the Titanic Credits Dyslexia For His Success
Not being able to see the world in the same way as others is often considered a drawback, but the view from a different...
Wasps Have Inspired an Innovative New Tool for Surgery
Dutch scientists have designed a new device to be used in keyhole surgery—and it's inspired by the way parasitoid wasps lay their eggs.
At the...
Google Maps Now Shows How Busy the Subway Cars Are – So People Can Avoid Pandemic Crowds
With the state of the pandemic varying across the globe, the new normal looks different depending on where you go.
But no matter your situation,...
Venom From Extremely Poisonous Caterpillar May Hold Healing Tonic That Saves Lives
The venom of one Australian caterpillar shows promise for use in medicines and pest control, researchers say.
The Doratifera vulnerans is common to large parts...
Farmers Now Use Floating Gardens To Keep Crops Alive When it Floods — A Climate Crisis Lesson
Bangladesh's floating gardens, built to grow food during flood seasons, could offer a sustainable solution for parts of the world prone to flooding because...
7-Year-old Girl Obsessed With Space Will Become the First Kid to Send an Item to the Moon
A seven-year-old astronaut in training will become the first child ever to send something to the moon after impressing the world's leading space pioneers.
Elizabeth...
Jaden Smith To Open A Vegan Restaurant Where Homeless People Can Eat For Free
Paying it forward is something that’s in Jaden Smith's genes. He played an instrumental role in the JUSTwater campaign, helping provide clean drinking water...
Limb-Different Gamer Wins Confidence—And Fans—With Bionic Arm, After a Rough Time in School
A gamer bullied as a youngster because they were born without a hand finally feels their disability isn't a hindrance, now they've been fitted...
Pulling Vodka From the Air: This Award Winning Carbon-Negative Spirit Comes From Captured CO2
The potential for tapping into humanity's CO2 emissions as a cheap and free source of carbon and oxygen is on full display with Air...
In Learning to Use Her Left Hand Following a Stroke 60-Year Old Chen Lie Discovers She’s an Expert Painter
At the age of 60, Chen Lie suffered a hemorrhagic stroke which arrived "without my invitation or permission." But the temporary paralysis of her...
Win Trip to 5-Star Spa in This Flower Arranging Contest With Charity Giving Bouquets to Terminal Patients
A company that sends flowers, cards, freshly baked cookies, and fine chocolates to end-of-life patients is hosting a competition to design the perfect floral...
Son Sells Thousands of Cheesesteaks to Give Mom Last Dream Trip to See the Egyptian Pyramids
How many sandwiches does it take to make a pyramid? Three. How many sandwiches does it take to bring your mom on a trip...
NASA’s Rover Makes Oxygen on Mars for the First Time
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, now includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin,...