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Don’t Toss It, Fix It! Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the “Right to Repair”
Roman Hottgenroth is surrounded by lamps, dishwashers and vacuum cleaners. Computers, smartphones and TV receivers are piled high on tin shelves behind him. A group of washing machines rattles loudly...
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Norway’s Electric Car Triumph Started With an ’80s Pop Star
The annual Monday morning quarterbacking has begun: Which of yesterday’s Super Bowl commercials deserve a victory dance in the endzone? A frontrunner is already emerging: the General Motors ad in which...
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Africa’s Wikipedia Editors Are Changing How the World Sees Their Continent
Years ago, while working in Uganda on an emergency relief program, Adama Sanneh had an epiphany. “I had this strange feeling,” he says. “I think I questioned myself whether I was on the wrong side of...
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‘Conservation Dogs’ Are Sniffing Out Species Humans Can’t See
In New York’s Lower Hudson Valley up through Northern New Jersey, Fagen, a seven-year-old Belgian Malinois, and Dia, a three-year-old Labrador retriever, are sniffing their way through a meadow, the...
View ArticleGet There Fast or Safe? A Crowdsourced Map Gives You the Option
In 2015, when writer Geetanjali Krishna’s then teenaged son started traveling for soccer practice to different venues around New Delhi, she installed a safety app called My Safetipin on his phone and...
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Hey Siri, Learn to Speak Kinyarwanda
“Alexa, kuki utumva Kinyarwanda?” That question — “Alexa, why don’t you understand Kinyarwanda?” — would be easily recognized by some 12 million Kinyarwanda speakers in Rwanda, eastern Congo and parts...
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America’s Star Teenage Scientist Is Catalyzing Generational Change
Motivated by the water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, Gitanjali Rao was only ten years old when she created her first invention, a now patented lead test for water. For this, Rao, now 15, was...
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Could Products Made of CO2 Help Cool the Planet?
Recently, we reported on the cutting-edge endeavors to capture carbon dioxide from the air before it can contribute to the climate crisis. But what to do with all those reclaimed gases? This week, we...
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Should We Protect Children or Privacy?
A year can seem unending. For an entire year, Julie Cordua tracked a man who regularly posted new images and videos online of him raping and torturing a very young girl. The predator was smart enough...
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In Austria, the Government Pays to Repair Your Stuff
Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: To the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the...
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