Sustainable Development

The United Nations Wants To Crush Extreme Poverty

Negotiators at the United Nations agreed Monday to a set of development goals that aim to end extreme poverty and hunger around the world in the next 15 years, while fighting ...

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The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak

The EmDrive has been dismissed as “impossible” on more than one occasion because it appears to violate Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which states that for ev...

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Film4Climate contest winners showcase effects of climate change

Hundreds of young people raised their voices for climate action in the Connect4Climate Film4Climate Global Video Competition, showing that it is possible even in the remotest ...

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Meet Aila, the German Robot Controlled From Russia With an Exoskeleton

Meet AILA, a robot designed by the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence or DFKI. DFKI is kind of like a European DARPA more focused on building robots for explor...

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These Exoskeletons, Rovers, And Mantis Robots Are The Future Of German Robotics

Researchers based at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) have been busy lately, judging by their latest glut of futuristic video content. Seemingly o...

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How The Dearly Departed Could Come Back To Life

You wake up, get ready for work, have some toast and coffee with your spouse, then wave goodbye. It’s your typical workday. There is, however, something unusual: your be...

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Researchers Use Brain Implant to Make Paralyzed Monkeys Walk

Between 255,000-600,000 Americans can’t walk because of paraplegia, or leg paralysis usually linked to spinal damage. But Tomislav Milekovic, a researcher at the Swiss F...

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Homemade Rotary Cell Phone Can Send Texts, Play FM Radio, And Make Calls

It wasn't all that long ago that huge swaths of critics were claiming Steve Jobs' keypad free cell phone would never take off, and I find myself wondering what they would have...

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The Looming Disaster Of The Internet Of (Hackable) Things

The Looming Disaster of the Internet of (Hackable) Things Last January, walking through the seemingly endless showroom at the gadget bonanza known as the Consumer Electro...

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The Art Of Water Recycling

Imagine that you run a company that sells bottled water. You spend lots of money, and use lots of energy, pumping the water out of the ground, purifying it and transporting it...

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MOVIES: A GENTLE DOWNPOUR OF INDIE SUCCESS

Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples acros...

October 19 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: THE QUESTION UNANSWERED

As India celebrates the birth centenary of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the Bard of the Brahmapu...

October 18 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: FETED ABROAD, FORGOTTEN AT HOME

When art-house brilliance wins global acclaim but faces neglect in its own country, it f...

October 17 2025