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
Tucson Entrepreneur’s Battery-free, Solar-powered Refrigerator is Recognized as NASA’s 2011 Commercial Invention of the Year NASA space research has helped drive some of the most impo... 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
Their very small displays sometimes make smartphones difficult to operate. In the future, a projector will help: if the cell phone is standing on a table, for instance, it can project... Read more
Brain Scans Reveal What Dogs Are Thinking Emory University’s Center for Neuropolicy in Atlanta has developed a new way of scanning the brains of alert dogs with the aim of getting a m... Read more
“This is a game-changing idea in cybersecurity“ In the online struggle for network security, Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are adding an ally to the securi... 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
Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are “brain candy” Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social... Read more
The Inclusive Wealth Indicator India and Brazil have had explosive growth over the last decade. Or have they? A new measurement of the true wealth of nations finds that what countries give u... Read more
Nevada has actually thrown open the door to anyone interested in testing an autonomous vehicle on the state’s roads Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has given Google the nation’s... 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
Virtual presences manifesting in the physical world Connecting human thought to a machine is a pursuit that once only existed in science fiction, but now Swiss scientists have made the impos... Read more
The area of the globe covered by wetlands (swamps, marshes, lakes, etc.) has dropped by 6% in fifteen years. This decline is particularly severe in tropical and subtropical regions, and in a... Read more
The new catalyst performs nearly as well as platinum Hydrogen gas offers one of the most promising sustainable energy alternatives to limited fossil fuels. But traditional methods of produci... Read more
