News

LA contest challenges 350 designers to create cutting-edge affordable housing. The winners will actually be built ...
After opening its first “safe outdoor spaces” this spring, this city wants to make it even easier for homeless residents to get help.
A small, family-owned bookstore — People’s Book — in Takoma Park, Maryland wants to live up to its name. The independent bookstore has made waves recently, announcing that it would donate all proceeds ...
Zikia, a 12th grader in Philadelphia, was stressing over where she would attend college in the fall. Her charter school’s college decision ceremony was the next day, and she was torn between her two ...
The findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for higher wages and better benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.
What if public art could also power an entire residential building? The SunRise Building, an apartment complex in Alberta, Canada, has answered that question — and is now the title holder of the ...
MrBeast (a.k.a. Jimmy Donaldson) and his friend, YouTuber and engineer Mark Rober, are back. On the heels of two successful crowdfunding campaigns with other content creators — #TeamTrees, which ...
James Larkin treats a rhino with radioisotopes. Photo courtesy of University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg What scientists do is embed low-level radioactive isotopes into the horn of a rhino. These ...
Getting an annual flu or COVID-19 shot is never a particularly pleasant experience, especially for those who aren’t too keen on getting a jab in the arm. While nasal spray vaccines have been added as ...
The dogs must train to balance on the paddle boards and sniff out their targets successfully.
In an unprecedented project in the municipality of São Simão, blue-and-yellow macaws born in captivity were trained in free-flight techniques before being introduced into the wild.
A large, $50 million study finds that these three lifestyle interventions could help slow brain aging.