Lisa Mullins
A new kind of baby incubator
A sleeping-bag-like incubator, the Embrace, was created to help save low-birth-weight or premature babies.
At 60, People's Republic yearns to innovate
China has grown beyond recognition in the past sixty years, and its government is trying to spur innovation to insure continued growth.
Combating climate change by storing CO2 underground
Project in Iceland aimed at removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it beneath the earth’s surface shows promising results.
The G20 through beer goggles
Why the world economy needs Americans to drink more foreign beer, and what this has to do with the G20.
Story behind new HIV vaccine
An AIDS vaccine trial in Thailand showed the vaccine cut the risk of infection by as much as a third; scientists encouraged by results.
A tale of two Russian anthems
Sergei Mikhalkov wrote the lyrics to the Soviet national anthem during World War II, but rewrote it decades later to better reflect the times.
DIY: How to turn urine into fertilizer
A do-it-yourself kit turns urine into fertilizer for household plants and makes human waste less harmful to the environment.
Pittsburgh markets to the G20
Businesses in Pittsburgh attempt to market to the G20, and find less than stellar results.
Drought in East Africa
A lack of rain and political unrest is threatening East Africa with starvation; Kenya is one of the hardest hit areas.
Brecht's musings on American capitalism
After the 1929 Wall Street crash, German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem about the rise and fall New York, and it's as if he wrote about 2008.
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