Schools in China begin installing greenhouse-like anti-smog domes

Several schools in northern China are installing huge domes where children can play and exercise during recess to protect them from the smog outside.

Your Smartphone's Next Big Trick? To Make You Healthier Than Ever

Can we repurpose the capacities of smartphones to improve health diagnostics on a global scale? Can we provide fast and reliable health diagnostics in areas with limited health infrastructure or health professionals?

No Job Is Safe, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued in the Workplace

In a world where these labor cycles are accelerating, the question is: What skills do we teach the next generation so they can keep pace?

This Device Can Save Thousands of People From Bleeding Out

The XSTAT injector is in its final stages of approval and it has the ability to save thousands of lives from blood loss.

Incredible rooftop farm takes over Israel's oldest mall to grow thousands of organic vegetables

Today the farm grows 10,000 heads of leafy greens a month year-round, with 17 different kinds of vegetables and herbs on rotation at a time, inside two greenhouses that total 750 square meters of growing space.

The human body may have a new organ - the mesentery

For more than a century, doctors have regarded the folds of flesh that hold our intestines in place as snippets of an elaborate support structure. Yet a pair of Irish researchers found that it’s actually one continuous fatty membrane, possibly constituting a whole new functional organ: the mesentery.

Natural tooth repair method could revolutionize dental treatments

Scientists from the Dental Institute at King's College London have proven a way to stimulate the stem cells contained in the pulp of the tooth and generate new dentine in large cavities, potentially reducing the need for fillings or cements.

Deepest X-ray image to date uncovers a black hole bonanza

Researchers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce an X-ray image of space (the deepest-ever X-ray, in fact) that has uncovered an abundance of supermassive black holes.

Physicists detect exotic looped trajectories of light in three-slit experiment

Physicists have performed a variation of the famous 200-year-old double-slit experiment that, for the first time, involves "exotic looped trajectories" of photons.

Large-scale tornado outbreaks increasing in frequency

The frequency of large-scale tornado outbreaks is increasing in the United States, particularly when it comes to the most extreme events, according to new research.

Mediterranean diet may have lasting effects on brain health

Older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three-year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely, new research shows.

Two Google Chat Bots Are Talking About What They're Talking About

Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the artificial intelligence agent, Google Assistant. If you own a Home, you can ask it questions and tell it to do things, like play music or look up recipes.

Your home planet, as seen from Mars

From the most powerful telescope orbiting Mars comes a new view of Earth and its moon, showing continent-size detail on the planet and the relative size of the Moon.

All 14,000 NY, USA Taxis Could Be Replaced with 3,000 Rideshare Cars

  • 5 Jan 2017

A real-time algorithm illustrates all possible trip combinations and then assigns the best vehicle for each trip.

Israel to test electric roads that wirelessly charge vehicles as they drive

Electroad is working to pave the way towards a greener world with technology that retrofits existing roads with buried coils to inductively charge electric vehicles.