Tag: Innovation
What’s a Luddite? An expert on technology and society explains
Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University
The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a...
Foams used in car seats and mattresses are hard to recycle...
Srikanth Pilla, Clemson University and James Sternberg, Clemson University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic...
Nobel prizes most often go to researchers who defy specialization –...
Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University and Michele Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University
Experts often recommend that people specialize in one...
Cut yourself and others some slack: we need more time to...
Maroš Servátka, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
In 1928 Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, while studying the staphylococcus bacteria, noticed...
These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor...
Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University
Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse...
These 3 energy storage technologies can help solve the challenge of...
Kerry Rippy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped...
A 20-foot sea wall won’t save Miami – how living structures...
Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, University of Miami and Brian Haus, University of Miami
Miami is all about the water and living...
Too few women get to invent – that’s a problem for...
Rem Koning, Harvard Business School
MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
