The growing opioid crises has sent health care experts scrambling for ways to address pain that doesn’t lead to addiction. In the labs of the…
LIGHTS OUT
Solar, wind, and water account for 2% of Puerto Rico’s energy—and now it’s 100% in the dark
Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million island residents are completely without power (paywall) following a lashing this week by Hurricane Maria. Even before the storm battered the…
SHELF LIFE
The biggest food makers have agreed to trash their confusing expiration labels
Some of the world’s largest food companies and retailers today (Sept. 20) have agreed to standardize expiration labels on packaging, a move that will give…
POLITICAL THEATRE
Donald Trump’s childhood home is being rented to refugees to make a statement
Refugees from three countries this week gathered in the childhood home of US president Donald Trump and nibbled on Dunkin’ Donuts. It was a clever…
WORDS MATTER
The problem with St. Louis police chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!”
Police in St. Louis, Missouri arrested more than 80 people Sunday (Sept. 17) in the third day of protests following a judge’s decision to acquit…
CELESTIAL DANCE
There’s something just as cool as the solar eclipse going on right now that’s harder to see
Depending upon where they are on the globe, astronomy enthusiasts today (Sept. 18) are in for another unusual treat if they look skyward at the…
SOFT TECH
Scientists created cotton that glows and is magnetic
Your reliable, plain cotton t-shirt might be on the cusp of a technological breakthrough, thanks to sugar. A group of scientists from the Weizmann Institute…
KABOOM, PROUDLY
“Technically it did land”—SpaceX debuts a wonderfully absurd blooper reel
The explosions are set to the tune used as the Monty Python theme song—each one a fiery ball of failure. In a humorous show of…
DOSE OF CHANGE
Why pharma companies are scared of Bernie’s Medicare for All plan
The idea of universal health-care in the US has traditionally been an elusive one, a far reach in a nation that relies on private insurance…
CHINA'S APPETITE
Israel found an unlikely buyer for its lab-grown meat: China
China this week inked a deal with Israel that stands to give high-tech vegan meat companies an opening into the world’s most populous country. “It…
OOPS
What’s the point of watching porn on Twitter?
US senator Ted Cruz is attempting to clean up an embarrassing social-media mess after his Twitter account was discovered to have “liked” a troublesome tweet.…
IT'S NUTTY
Food labels now say “free-range trees,” which might be even more insane than “gluten-free water”
Is your dairy-free, non-GMO “milk” made from free-range trees? This one is. In the wild world of product claims, the fledgling macadamia-nut-milk industry is charging…
