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Japan Is Building A Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory

Indoor lettuce-growing is in vogue. And it’s being taken over by robots.In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce ...

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The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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eGirl Power Aims To Stand Up To Gender Inequality

As Ariana Grande fearlessly tweeted, misogyny and gender double standards are still deeply embedded in the US. Her mantra: No woman belongs to any other person but herself....

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What Is a Gravitational Wave Detector, and Why Do We Want to Send One to Space?

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime. They’re a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but while we’ve seen indirect eviden...

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Pamela Anderson Urges M.A.C. To Stop Animal Tests.

Former Viva Glam M.A.C. model Pamela Anderson is appealing to the cosmetics company to resume its cruelty-free policy and stop paying for animal tests. M.A.C. — along...

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Samsung Introduces 7 Solar-Power Charging Points Across Bangalore

Despite advancements in hardware, and software, we are still miles behind when it comes to generating sufficient battery power for running our gadgets. Two major breakthrou...

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The UN Says Gaza Could Be Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years

The findings of the UN's Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) echoed an earlier assessment made by the UN in 2011, which determined that Gaza would not be livable b...

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SpaceX Is Planning At Least Four More Launches This Year

Earlier this week, Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president, said she wasn’t sure when the company would return to flight after its failed International Space S...

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India Fixes Health Goals For Next 15 Years.

India has set itself a challenging target to reduce maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births respec...

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The Ten-Year Mission To Study All The Ways The Arctic Is Doomed

Called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE for short, the large-scale study will combine on-the-ground field studies as well as data from remote sensors?su...

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