Christina Tynan-Wood

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Medicine

Health

A World-Changing Idea Is About to Get $100 Million

Space & Innovation

Some of the world's biggest nerds gathered this week at the RSA convention in San Francisco to talk about a subject most people would rather never contemplate and probably don't fully understand: Cybersecurity.

Microsoft Wants a Digital Geneva Convention for Cyberwarfare

Animals

Earth & Conservation

If you fly over the Namibian desert, on the west coast of southern Africa, you will see one of nature's great mysteries.

The Mystery of African Desert 'Fairy Circles' Might Have Just Been Solved

Traveling the world for months at a stretch is no longer the exclusive privilege of the idle rich or the dangerously credit reckless.

How to Take a Three-Month Round-the-World Vacation for (Almost) Free

Energy

Carbon dioxide emissions account for 65 percent of greenhouse gas emissions around the world - and 81 percent in the U.S.

An Indian Factory Is Converting CO2 From a Coal Plant Into Baking Soda

Materials

As humans evolved to stand upright, so too did our skeleton.

3D-Printed Future Human Shows How Our Joints Will Evolve

Archaeology

Badgers discovered the burial site of 12th century Slavic warriors and a Stonehenge cremation burial.

Forget the Shovel, Ancient Finds Now Made From Space

Gadgets

Leafy plants are miraculous self-sufficient factories capable of transforming solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis-code-could-help-feed-the-world-2099730683.html">photosynthesis.

This Artificial Leaf Uses Sunlight to Make Drugs

Scientists just got a new tool in the quest to predict if, how much, and when sea levels will rise on our planet in the future.

New NASA Satellite Tool Watches Ice Flow in Near Real Time

Nonaddictive Opioid Alternatives Could Come From Chili Peppers

For decades, scientists have theorized that pumping aerosols into the stratosphere could counteract the warming effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

A Potential Global Warming Solution Might Also Block Starlight

Scientists fearing that crucial data related to climate change might be erased or otherwise lost under Donald's Trump's administration are racing to make copies of the research to protect it.

A World-Changing Idea Is About to Get $100 Million

The MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change contest is offering a nine-figure grant for a plan to solve a major world problem.

Microsoft Wants a Digital Geneva Convention for Cyberwarfare

The software giant is calling for a treaty to outline protections for civilians and companies from government-sponsored hacking.

The Mystery of African Desert 'Fairy Circles' Might Have Just Been Solved

A new theory helps explain the cause of the odd patterns in the Namibian desert — and can even help predict them.

How to Take a Three-Month Round-the-World Vacation for (Almost) Free

A travel hacker just flew business class around the globe — on the cheap. Here's how he did it.

An Indian Factory Is Converting CO2 From a Coal Plant Into Baking Soda

A thermal power station on the Bay of Bengal in southern India has found a way to make carbon capture profitable.

3D-Printed Future Human Shows How Our Joints Will Evolve

Computer models that predict how the human skeleton will evolve are being used to print troublesome joints that will likely cause us pain.

Forget the Shovel, Ancient Finds Now Made From Space

Archaeology now has much better tools than lucky amateurs with shovels.

This Artificial Leaf Uses Sunlight to Make Drugs

The tiny solar factory concentrates sunlight onto molecules, generating the chemical reactions needed to make medicine.

New NASA Satellite Tool Watches Ice Flow in Near Real Time

A new $1 million system called GoLIVE allows scientists to track the movement of glaciers and ice sheets and predict future sea-level rise.

Nonaddictive Opioid Alternatives Could Come From Chili Peppers

Capsaicin, the active component in chili peppers, shows promise for relieving the sort of nerve pain that leads sufferers directly to prescription painkillers.

A Potential Global Warming Solution Might Also Block Starlight

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to fight climate change would also make it hard for much of the world to see stars in the night sky.

Climate Scientists Scramble to Backup Data Before Trump Takes Charge

Concerns over the incoming Trump administration's denials of climate change are prompting scientists to preserve data they fear may disappear.