Tag: science
Biofuels from straw and agricultural waste, not food
Instead of creating fuel from corn or other food crops, one company is creating so-called "second-generation" biofuels from straw....
Breakthrough discovery for cystic fibrosis treatment
Discovery of antitoxin provides promising new treatment for cystic fibrosis....
Brazil competes economically by investing in science and technology
President Barack Obama's visit to Brazil highlights the country's investment in science and technology as global economic competition heats up....
How to live longer
Scientists have unlocked some surprising secrets about why some people live longer than others....
Nature vs. Nurture: Solved
A human's personality is pretty much fixed from the time they're born, according to neuroscientists....
Poo-Gloos: Cleaning wastewater on the cheap
The village of Gresham, Wisconsin, is trying a novel way of getting rid of wastewater: Poo-Gloos, like igloos for sewage....
Egypt's low-tech solutions to high-tech censorship
When the Egyptian government shut down the internet, activists turned to low-tech ways to make their voices heard....
Test tube sheep save endangered species
The SVF Foundation farm in Newport, Rhode Island, freezes animal embryos to save endangered heritage species from extinction....
Finding mastodons in ski country
Snowmass Village, Colorado, is home to one of the most significant archeological finds of ice age fossils in North America....
Teaching assistants outsourced to Asia
Colleges are outsourcing the grading of papers to India, and students may not know that they're writing for "virtual TAs."...
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