Some half a million people worldwide with severe hearing loss use an electronic implant in the ears to be able to let them understand speech. Cochlear implants, as they are known, are one of the most successful technologies to have come out of neuroscience, but only provide partial correction for any hearing deficit. They are... Continue Reading →

A New Zealand company has generated the first 3D color X-Ray images of the human body by using an advanced medical scanner. The scanner utilizes CERN's Medipix3 technology and has been in development for a decade. It's able to produce high resolution images thanks to particle tracking technology. Medipix chips work like a camera --... Continue Reading →

Alyssa Carson fell in love with space when she was only 3 years old and now is making it her life's work to be the first human to land on Mars. The 17-year-old is training to be on the first NASA trip to the Red Planet, where she says she’ll spend two to three years.... Continue Reading →

A Chicago police officer fatally shot a man Saturday evening on the city’s South Side, angering nearby residents who gathered at the scene in large numbers and confronted officers for several hours. The shooting was the latest in recent years to expose deep-seated mistrust between the Chicago police and residents of predominantly black neighborhoods on... Continue Reading →

If you're tired of looking at pictures of Donald Trump, there's a Chrome extension for that. Make America Kittens Again is an extension you can add to your Google Chrome browser that automatically detects images of Trump on the web and changes them to photos of kittens. While the extension doesn't work on social media... Continue Reading →

Donald Trump might have hoped for a bit of a break from protesters across the pond with a golfing weekend at his Turnberry resort in Scotland. But a Greenpeace protester managed to outsmart security by circling over Trump’s digs in a motorized paraglider with a cheeky message. “TRUMP: WELL BELOW PAR. #RESIST,” read the sign on... Continue Reading →

Executive pay is a touchy topic. Companies want the freedom to offer whatever they think is necessary for someone like a CEO. Investors want to know where their money is going. Workers expect to understand why some people get not just a lot more but amounts that are breathtaking in their largesse. Pay ratios between... Continue Reading →

A team of scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Göttingen have teamed up to create a ‘next generation’ bionic hand. This bionic hand is special because it uses artificial intelligence to improve its functionality. The work carried out by the team and published in Science Robotics, shows that with the help of... Continue Reading →

Real play is the freedom for children to engage with and learn from the world that surrounds them. By mentally and physically connecting children to the world, play empowers them to create and grow for the rest of their lives. It is a fundamental right for all children. Research shows that play is vital to... Continue Reading →

Republicans for years have proclaimed the federal government’s decades-old War on Poverty a failure. “Americans are no better off today than they were before the War on Poverty began in 1964,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) wrote in his 2016 plan to dramatically scale back the federal safety net. Now the Trump administration is... Continue Reading →