It's interesting to note that modern humans have been around for a very long time and lived for much of it without causing much irreparable damage to...
How Do Humans Affect the Environment?
Carbon neutrality has failed – now our only way out of global warming is to go carbon negative
With the mostly failed campaign to prevent climate change from raising global temperatures by more than 2 degrees Celsius, and no real prospect of rolling out significant amounts of...
Apple’s iPhone 6 is more durable, less breakable than iPhone 5S, Galaxy S5, One M8
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, along with being the largest phones Apple has ever built, are also the toughest and most durable. Perhaps even more importantly,...
Google X reveals Project Wing, autonomous drones that can deliver things ‘in just a minute or two’
Google X, the web titan’s secretive special projects lab, has revealed that it’s working on a drone-based delivery system called Project Wing. Outwardly, the Google X project...
Software on your smartphone can speed up lithium-ion battery charging by up to 6x
A startup in California, with the rather odd name of Qnovo, says it has developed a new way of rapidly recharging conventional lithium-ion batteries. With Qnovo’s technology,...
Google’s autonomous car gets a ‘B’ in driving test: Not great, but better than most of us
Self-driving cars have come under increased scrutiny in the past week, as newly uncovered documents show that a 2012 road test for one of Google’s self-driving cars resulted...