Innovation

Earlier this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it was investigating an inexplicable uptick in severe lung disease that seems to be affecting e-cigarette users. In the five days after the investigation was…

If you're keen on learning more about sustainability and how it relates to helping to clean up our environment (and live in New York City), this is one event you'll definitely want to hit up. It's called Arcadia Earth, a pop-up museum set to open…

For the past 12 years, I was in a committed relationship. It was fun and exciting in the beginning. But it quickly turned into codependency — the kind that leaves you feeling empty when you're apart. I wanted to end things, but I wasn't sure if I…

For the past few weeks, numerous fires in the Amazon rainforest have torn through acres of jungle. The fires have produced so much smoke that NASA could clearly see and photograph it from space. Residents living within the region saw their skies…

Apple is reportedly preparing to refresh its popular wireless AirPods after introducing the new second-generation version earlier this year. The new and improved AirPods that debuted in March 2019 came packing only a couple of minor alterations:…

Tech companies are happy to tout their innovations and latest developments, but one organization is warning that not all advancements are good ones. Dutch nonprofit PAX, an organization that advocates for peace, recently looked into how the tech…

The sky in São Paulo, Brazil, turned pitch black at 3 p.m. on Monday. What should have been a bright afternoon suddenly became a bleak night. Last week, NASA produced photos from space showing smoke coming from the Amazon like a hazy cloud leaving…

Can't believe it's not butter? It remains to be seen whether that will be the case with the creation of a new low-calorie "butter" substitute spread that's actually mostly water. Food scientists at Cornell University have formulated what they call a…

For years, standardized tests have been the barriers that students have to climb in order to advance academically. They are the ruler by which success is measured, despite being deeply flawed creations of a racist and classist system that has…