This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Last week we told you about FAILFaire, an event where people talk about international development projects that failed. Many of these projects started as good ideas. Others had some level of success...
Different combinations of sniffing in and out can be used to control a wheelchair. Reasearchers in Israel have developed an electronic controller that allows severely disabled people to control their wheelchairs or computers with a simple sniff of th...
Researchers in the Philippines will soon use mobile phones to help farmers use just the right amount of fertilizer, maximizing their harvests, saving them money and protecting the environment. It's a novel way to deliver important information to remo...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Christopher Intagliata.Got a minute? Ten years ago, MySpace did not exist,neither did Facebook. Just one site called 6 Degrees.com dominated the online social networking market. But soon, a bunch...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Merskey. Got a minute? Some strong comments from John Holdren, director of the science technology and public policy program in Harvards JFK school of government. Saturday, the annual meeting...
Have you recently been poking your friends, twittering , or blogging ? Well, according to a recent report from the global research company Nielson, you are most definitely not alone. The report says that social networking and blogs have now become mo...
It has been 10 years since the birth of Napster and the global spread of file-sharing sites. Back in 1999, Shawn Fanning, then a 19-year-old student, could never have predicted the extent to which his simple computer program would change the music in...
Amateur 'ham' radio operators don't need web cams or the Internet to chat with people all over the world Matt Sepic | St. Louis, Missouri 20 April 2010 Helen Schlarman, 89, has multiple sclerosis and says ham radio lets her connect with friends she's...
U.S. National Research Council calls for more exploration Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 08 April 2010 Photo: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Rick Potts has led excavations at early human sites in the East African Rift Valley, and cu...
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