BVG, the private firm that manages most of the public transportation systems in Germany’s largest city, has come up with a new way to cut both traffic jams and smog: an app called Jelbi that gives the 3.7 million Berliners access to the city’s buses, subways, trolleys, as well as shared bikes, cars, and even scooters.
We tend to fit our meals around activities: breakfast, if you eat one, at maybe 7 in the morning before work, meal breaks at noon, then after work you do a little shopping, get home, change clothes, tend to a few chores, cook up something, and sit down to dinner at 6 or 7.
When Josh Browder was a computer science student at Stanford University, he racked up a lot of parking tickets he couldn’t pay. As a result, he became an expert in exploiting legal loopholes to skirt his fines.
Scientists are hard at work devising new forms of plastic that won’t contribute to the well-documented tsunami of plastic trash engulfing the world.
A new trial has again proven stem cells’ power to dramatically alter human health.
Water, water everywhere: 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water but humans can’t drink it or water their crops with ocean brine.
It’s been called “Womb With a View”: the EctoLife artificial uterus lets a fertilized human egg grow in an ideal environment within a transparent pod so the process of development can be seen not only by doctors, but also by parents-to-be.
Renewable energy is decentralizing the electric grid. Now the Warming Surfaces Co., a spinout from VTT, Finland’s technology skunkworks, has decentralized heat—specifically, the heat inside your home.
AlphaCode, an advance in artificial intelligence from Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind, has outperformed humans at writing computer code to solve tricky problems in programming.
Several research projects are reporting initial success in using a simple blood test to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease years before people show symptoms.