New “Biofoam” Turns Dirty Water Into Drinkable Water The foam can be made into huge sheets at a low cost.
Facebook's Massive Internet-Spreading Drone Completes First Test Flight Facebook’s massive Aquila drone took the skies for the first time with a successful, but brief test flight.
Childhood Obesity Is Now a Problem in Rural China Too In 1985, fewer than 1 percent of children in China were obese. By 2014, this number had soared to 17 percent for boys and 9 percent for girls. What happened?
Paving the Way out of Poverty Research shows that putting in the proper infrastructure can bolster wealth in the poorer parts of cities.
Veganism Could Feed the World With Zero Deforestation There’s about to be a whole lot more mouths to feed.
Scientists “Rescuing” Developing Countries From Disease Outbreaks May Actually Be Harmful Global health officials say “parachute research” and “biopiracy” has to stop.
Bill Gates Is Backing a Waterless Toilet That Uses Nanotechnology to Treat Waste It could be the future of sanitation.