• Stretchable Fabric Battery Could Power Wearables with Sweat
• The Best Hearing Aid in the World Is Made of Spider Silk Dipped in Gold
• Weird Critter May Help Us to Heal Livers
• The Mud That Could Save the World
• Stuffed Animals Help Scientists Learn How Sea Lion Moms…
AI Applications 1
• How Artificial Intelligence Could Revolutionize Archival Museum Research
• Using Digitized Botany Specimens, AI Excels in Simple Curatorial Tasks
• Can Swarming Robots and Cloud Umbrellas Help Save Coral Reefs?
• Drip by Kickstarter, a Continuously Funding Tool for Artists to Build Community a…
Trash to Treasure
• The Weird, Wooden Future of Skyscrapers
• High-Tech Skyscrapers Could Be Built with Low-Tech Wood
• The Skyscrapers of the Future Could Be Built with the Garbage of Today
• Boaters Stumble on Massive Caribbean Gyre of Plastic Garbage
• Sweden’s Recycling Program Is Doing So Well They’ve Run Ou…
Learning from Nature
• The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future
• Wake Up and Smell the Traffic? London Tries Coffee to Power Buses
• Holy Smokes! Tobacco May Fuel Planes in the Future
• Full of Beans: Coffee Grounds to Help Power London’s Buses
• This Commuter Bus Runs on Poo…
Lava’s Gonna Ooze
• A Wall of Lava Lamps That Generate Enough Randomness to Help Keep the Internet Secure
• One of the Secrets Guarding the Secure Internet Is a Wall of Lava Lamps
• How These Lava Lamps Are Securing the Internet
• The Lava Lamps That Help Keep the Internet Secure
Let It Go
• After the NYC Marathon, Where Does All the Poop Go?
• A Portable Kit Relies on Everyday Items to Bring Toilets to Disaster Zones
• Is It Dangerous to Hold Your Urine?
• There’s No Toilet Like Home
Demography in Turmoil
• Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, a Powerful Six-Word Compilation about Cultural Identity and Immigration
• My Travels in White America — A Land of Anxiety, Division and Pockets of Pain
• One Weird Trick to End Gerrymandering: Cake-Cutting Game Theory
• Researchers Propose a Gaming Solution to Gerrymanderin…
Power to Go
• Ingenious New Sewage Treatment System Generates Electricity and Clean Water
• Waste Toilet Paper Could Produce Lots of Electricity
• World’s Largest Laser Could Solve Our Energy Problems
• Can a Carbon ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Save the Planet?
• DeepMind Wants to Find the Next Miracle material — Experts Just Don’t Know H…
Old Dogu, New Tricks
• Swedish-To-English IKEA Product Name Dictionary
• A Cut Above the Rest: How Finland’s Orange-Handled Scissors Inspired a Design Revolution
• MIT Sophomore Designs Winter Sleeping Bags for Syrian Refugees
• Adventure Tape: Super Useful, Reusable Alternative to Duct Tape, Bungie Cords and Rop…
Inspiration Is Where You Find It
• Gecko-Inspired Gripper May Soon Snag Space Junk
• A Better Touch Screen, Inspired by Moth Eyes
• Dancing Balls Lead to a Physics Discovery
• Snow-White Beach in Australia Is Made up of Billions of Cockle Shells
• Snail in the Coffin: Left-Coiling Mollusc Jeremy Dies after Finding Lov…
Street Smarts
• The U.S. Cities with the Worst Traffic Jams for Their Size
• Understanding Highway Hypnosis
• 20 Things You Didn’t Know about Traffic
• What’s the Difference Between a Street, a Road, and an Avenue?
• If You Drive Down a Stretch of Route 66, the Road Will Play “America the Beautiful”
• Interactive Crossing Light…
Cows and Effect
• Cow Farts Are an Even Bigger Problem Than We Thought
• Intelligent, Inquisitive, Loving: The Secret Life of Cows
• The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young — Review
• How a Quarter of Cow DNA Came from Reptiles
• Dutch Startup Wants to Train Crows to Clean Streets of Cigarette Butts
• TV Commercial Depicts Gia…
Kimi No Hitomi
• Scientists Discover Protein in Human Tears Can Create Electricity
• Why Seaweed, Not Solar, May Be the Energy of Tomorrow
• There’s Enough Wind Energy over the Oceans to Power Human Civilization, Scientists Say
• Why Wind Farms Make More Power over Water Than Land
• Study Shows North Atlanti…
Aging, Aji, & Cafe Culture
• Japanese Portable Alarm to Keep Laptops Safe When Working from a Cafe Smashes Crowdfunding Goal
• Modern Laundromat-Cafe in Japan Helps Customers Pass the Time
• Clothes Washing and Ironing in Japan
• Japanese People List Their Top Ten Fish, and Tuna Isn’t Number On…
Smoke’s Gonna Come Out
• What Would the Next Golden Record Carry?
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson Blames ‘Both Sides’ for the Rise of Anti-Intellectualism in Politics
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson: What If We Just Turned the Hurricanes into Electricity
• Would Dumping Trash into Volcanoes Solve Our Global Waste Problem?
• Why Don’t We Throw Trash…
The Accidental Rainforest
• What the Bark Is That? – The Giving Tree Isn’t Home Right Now
• Clear-Cut Tropical Forest Revitalized with Industrial Orange Peel Waste
• This 12,000-Ton Pile of Orange Peels Is Now a Lush Costa Rican Forest
• How Discarded Orange Peels Brought a Costa Rica Forest Back to Life
• The Hidden Memories of Plant…
On the Road
• What Happens If You Turn off the Traffic Lights?
• The Geographical Challenges of Building a Continuous Drivable Road around the Earth
• Estimated Insect Deaths Due to Collisions with Motor Vehicles
• To Guard Against Climate Change, Los Angeles Is Painting Its Streets White
• Drinking and Drive-Overs
• Is It Better to Back in…
Home Cooking
• The True Identity of Cup Noodle’s “Mystery Meat”
• New Japanese Cat Cafe Is so Stylish It’d Be Worth a Visit Even If It Was Feline-Free
• Japan’s Top Twenty Roadside Service Stops, Destinations in Their Own Right
• What Is Panko, and How Is It Different from Bread Crumbs?
• Vending Machine That Serves Homemade Gyoza Found in…
Around Town 1
• Driverless Shuttles Could Help Seniors Get around in Rural Japan
• Where Does ‘Taking Back Control’ Leave Our Shopping Streets? In Cloud Cuckoo Land
• One Italian City’s Ingenious Plan to Combat Xenophobia with Design
• Vending Machine Startup Hopes to Put Bodegas out of Business