An ingenious app of Raj Karmani, Zero Percent, connects restaurants and schools that have surplus food with nonprofits that bring the food to those in need.
The $1 million award will be given annually to a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity
A company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to "unlock human potential and promote equality" today announced a $3 billion project that aims to cure, prevent, or manage "all diseases in our children.
In times of violence, take a cue from these Nobel Peace Prize winners.
An automotive engineer traveled 6,200 miles in his unique zero-emissions vehicle.
Emma Yang created Timeless, - the first app designed specifically for Alzheimer’s patients. The teen, who received one of the “Ten Under Twenty” innovation awards, is still in the development stages of the app but she hopes to release it by the end of the year.
With no walls, the pillars of the bridge serve as a boundary. But for the roughly 300 pupils - mostly children of impoverished migrant labourers, daily wage workers and seasonal farmers - it offers the chance of an education.
In real life, Matt Damon chases down the one thing every person needs, but can’t always get—clean water. Damon’s appearances worldwide for the Water.org charity have delivered danger-free drinking water to 4.3 million people in 12 countries.
A man in Vietnam, Tong Phuoc Phuc, has adopted 100 children from mothers who abandoned them because they didn’t have the means to feed one more mouth.
New Yorker Lauren Singer produces so little waste that she can fit all of her trash from the past two years in a 16 oz. mason jar and now she’s trying to teach the rest of the world how to do the same.
The third largest retailer in the world has taken a revolutionary step towards ending hunger in Europe.
This little girl decided to skip Disneyland and fairy tale reenactments to use her Make-A-Wish grant to become an environmental philanthropist. After Amelia Meyer was diagnosed with brain cancer, the Missouri child said that her dream was to pick up huge amounts of trash in her Kansas City community.
Sugata Mitra is professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. “Our current system is training clerks. We have to change it if we don’t want to make people like machines,” said Mitra.
These students in Matamoros, Mexico, didn't have reliable Internet access, steady electricity, or much hope—until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.
In the 1960s, NASA sent a rejection letter to a hopeful astronaut simply because she was female. At the time, there was no impetus to set up a training program for women. How times have changed: The latest class of NASA astronauts is comprised of 50 percent women for the first time in history, as reported by The New York Times.
