Never Buy A Bulb Again: Buy Your Light Instead
New services offer to install and pay for your energy-efficient lighting systems--then you just rent the light you use from them.
View ArticleBottling Custom Bacteria To Eat The Dirtiest Grime
Microbes love to eat our nastiest by-products, like fat, oil, and grease. Instead of using caustic chemicals to clean up messes, why not just employ nature’s garbage men?
View ArticleThe Biggest Driver Of Electric Vehicles Isn't Who You Think
The U.S. military is funding and taking risks on EV technology in a way that the private sector simply can’t.
View ArticleYour Green Dream House Might Be Illegal
ReCode is a project that is attempting to change building codes and zoning laws across the country to make them more amenable to sustainable design and renewable energy.
View ArticleAn Autonomous Sub Speaks Whale To Explore The Deepest Ocean
Using techniques borrowed from how whales hunt, a new underwater exploration device can scan vast areas of the ocean and tell us about ecosystems of which we have hardly any understanding.
View ArticleThis Kayak Folds Up Just Like Origami
Finding a place for a bike in a cramped city apartment is hard enough. Finding a place for a seagoing vessel is nearly impossible--unless you have this foldable kayak.
View ArticleEthiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months
After a box of Motorola Xoom tablets was dropped off in an Ethiopian village, kids who had never seen a computer before quickly taught themselves how to make modifications to Android.
View ArticleElectric Bikes Have Invaded China. Is The U.S. Next?
There are tens of millions of battery-assisted bikes on the road in China, but they barely exist here. What will it take to get people out of cars and onto these bikes that you don’t even have to...
View ArticleTo Stop Poaching, Injecting Rhino Horns With GPS And Poison
The Rhino Rescue Project is trying to stop illicit killing of the animals by lowering the market value of the horn, which is used as a drug in Asia. Now snorting a little rhino horn could lead you to a...
View ArticleDitch Time-Wasting Meetings By Turning Your Office Into An Ant Colony
Scientists have started applying lessons from how ants operate to the corporate world. The result: fewer meetings, more time working, and tasks completed much more quickly.
View ArticleRidding The Country's Roads Of Potholes, With An Army Of Online Inspectors
Using Google Streetview and Mechanical Turk, a new project is listing roads in need of repair around the country.
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