An Airliner Near-Catastrophe Offers Unique Neuroscience

In August 2001, behavioral neuroscientist Margaret McKinnon was among 306 passengers and crew on Air Transat Flight 236, a transoceanic flight originating in Toronto and de...

The Past 15 Years — And What Remains To Be Done.

Achievements include more children surviving past their fifth birthdays, fewer cases of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, improvements in child nutrition, higher rates o...

Move Over, Alexander Hamilton: A Woman Is Going On The $10 Bill

A woman will be featured on the new version of the $10 bill, the Treasury Department is set to formally announce on Thursday. “America’s currency is a way for o...

GAIT Collaborates With GLOBAL WATER DANCES & The Children Of Lakshyam School

June 20, 2015

 On June 20, 2015, people from over seventy locations across six continents will assemble to revere, renew, and inspire solution...

The World Is Running Out of Water

Humans are depleting underground aquifers around the world at alarming rates, threatening hundreds of millions of people who rely on them for survival, according to a compr...

This Toy Car Is Powered Just By Water Evaporating

It doesn’t look like the most cutting-edge vehicle. A dinky toy car made out of what looks like Lego Technic creeps in slow jerks across a tabletop—and that&rsq...

Children Demand Inclusion In Water And Sanitation Programmes At UNICEF Forum

Children and youth from more than 12 countries urged world leaders at an international conference to include them in water, sanitation and hygiene programmes. At least 60 c...

Indian Origin Stanford Professor Creates A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets

Manu Prakash, an assistant professor at Stanford University has built a computer that operates on water. It gains its energy from moving water droplets. The idea stuck Mr. ...

World?s First And Largest Ocean Cleanup To Begin In 2016

The Ocean Cleanup will deploy the world's longest floating barrier in the Sea of Japan to start collecting plastic waste as part of a greater goal - cleaning up the Great P...