A crowdfunding campaign is seeking to match donors with Detroit residents who are behind on their bill payments and face having their water shut off. By Wednesday afternoon, more than 1,500 donors had signed up on the website Turn on Detroit’s Water, which was created last week by Tiffani Ashley Bell and Kristy Tillman. The... Continue Reading →

A new study by researchers from the University of Leicester has furthered our understanding of how tiny nanosystems function, unlocking the potential to create new materials using nanosized 'building blocks'. The study, which has been published in the prestigious academic journal Physical Review Letters, used a novel laser technique to examine in rich detail the... Continue Reading →

A pair of trucks convoying 10 meters apart on Interstate 80 just outside Reno, Nevada, might seem like an unusual sight—not to mention unsafe. But the two trucks doing this a couple of weeks ago were actually demonstrating a system that could make trucking safer and much more efficient. While the driver in front drove... Continue Reading →

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new combination pain pill from the maker of OxyContin that is designed to discourage abuse by painkiller addicts. Purdue Pharma's new drug Targiniq ER is an extended release tablet that combines oxycodone — the active ingredient in OxyContin — with the drug naloxone. FDA regulators approved the... Continue Reading →

Despite their inefficiency, old-school incandescent lightbulbs sure did put out a pleasant, natural-looking light. The folks at Finally Light Bulb missed that light, so they brought it back with an efficient, affordable bulb using technology Nikola Tesla once patented. The team visited Gizmodo's NYC office to show us the light. The Finally Light Bulb is... Continue Reading →

Every technology casts a shadow. In the case of 3D printing, for every potentially benign use —like bioprinting organs—there is an unsettling opposite like printing guns at home. Now, the army is looking to use 3D printing to make the world a more dangerous place in at least one more way: building deadlier warheads. The... Continue Reading →

US scientists have physically cut the HIV virus out of infected cells by using enzymes. The method could, in theory, lead to a permanent cure for AIDS, though researchers warn there is still a long way to go. Scientists from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia have pioneered a technique which uses a targeting... Continue Reading →

Leading Democrats inside and outside Congress have hit upon a strategy to curtail a recent epidemic of corporate tax dodging, which if left unchecked could cost the government tens of billions of dollars. It begins today with a closely watched hearing in the Senate Finance Committee, a prelude to a whirlwind of horse trading and... Continue Reading →

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) released guidelines for helping to prevent the spread of HIV in key populations. The group, which also monitors the globe for pandemic outbreaks, says we have to decriminalize sex work and drugs if we want to stop HIV. HIV can be controlled with medications and safer sex,... Continue Reading →

The British government has decriminalized the act of online video game, music and film piracy, after branding harsher punishment plans as “unworkable.” Beginning in 2015, internet users who persistently file-share will be sent a series of warning letters explaining that their actions are illegal. However, authorities will take no further action if the user continues... Continue Reading →