Social Entrepreneurship In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impa... Read more
“This is the first time we may have a treatment for the underlying cause in the most common form of cystic fibrosis.” A locally waged battle against cystic fibrosis has yielded an exp... Read more
I suspect the first “cheap” 4K screens will arrive around CES 2015 As we approach the E3, the electronic gaming show in early June, I suspect that the value of “Retina” high-resolution displ... Read more
Elver numbers are now at 5% of their levels in the 1980s Scientists create a mixture of detritus and waste matter, which is hoped will reproduce larvae’s natural diet Marine biologists... Read more
There are approximately 105,000 people currently on the waiting list for solid organ transplant in the United States. 18 of those people die every day. These deaths are due entirely to the f... Read more
A much-vaunted new material may change telecommunications GRAPHENE, a form of carbon that comes in sheets a single atom thick, has gained a reputation as a wonder material. It is the best co... Read more
The most creative solutions to difficult problems often seem to come out of nowhere. The mysterious nature of the “sudden flash of insight” has given rise to the myth of inspiration – the id... Read more
Physicians still make decisions without access to the synthesised evidence they need Australian researchers are calling for the open sharing of clinical trial data in the medical research co... Read more
The driver no longer has to think about adapting their tyres A team of German researchers from the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig are developing an “intelligent” tire that automat... Read more
“NeighborGoods helps members live less wasteful and more connected lives.” Anyone who doubts that the Internet has the potential to bring people together should take a closer look at N... Read more
”One out of every 200 Americans is an amputee” A breakthrough in medical technology could see limb regeneration by utilizing high levels of oxygen on severed bone. Truth be told, there is a... Read more
Our schools should be producing kids who tinker, make, experiment, collaborate, question We don’t need to memorize things any more, but we still need teachers to guide our students toward le... Read more
Often what “humanizes” technology most are the creative uses people put it to As Silicon Valley startups race to develop the next generation of online marketing tools – new software based on... Read more
Kickstarter for Research A firm called Microryza launched today has taken the famous crowd-based fundraising model applied in websites like Kickstarter and applied it to something that is es... Read more
A new study shows that reducing iron levels in blood plasma may protect the brain from changes related to AD Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is now the sixth leading cause of death among Amer... Read more
