At the opening of its new Media Lab, MIT showed off green urban transportation work. The different vehicles are known as the Smart Cities project. One such vehicle is the CityCar, a compact vehicle that can carry two passengers. Four of the electric vehicles can fit in a parking space that would normally accommodate only […]
I’m a garbage man. And you might find it interesting that I became a garbage man, because I absolutely hate waste. I hope, within the next 10 minutes, to change the way you think about a lot of the stuff in your life. And I’d like to start at the very beginning. Think back when […]
♪ INTRO ♪ There are probably lots of things in your life that use radio waves, like your car and your cell phone. And there are radio waves passing through you all the time. For something that we use so much, you’d think we’d know who invented it. But the story behind the invention of […]
Not even they can stop me now Boy, I’ll be flying overhead Their heavy words can’t bring me down Boy, I’ve been raised from the dead no one even knows how hard life was And I don’t even think about it now because I finally found you Sing it to me Now my life is […]
AS YOU MAY KNOW THE NBA ALL-STAR GAME HAPPENED SUNDAY NIGHTS IN L.A. EVERY YEAR BEFORE THE GAME AND FINALS THEY HAVE A MEDIA DAY AND ALLOW SPORTS REPORTERS FROM ALL OVER TO TALK TO THE PLAYERS. GUILLERMO IS AT ALL OF THE EVENTS. GUILLERMO HAS BEEN TRYING TO GOT AN INTERVIEW WITH LEBRON JAMES […]
[♪ INTRO] If you read the headlines today, you probably come away feeling like the world is a scary, dangerous, hopeless place. But in reality, many things are better now than ever. Worldwide homicide rates have largely been dropping for centuries, for example, and global life expectancy keeps climbing. So why all the bad news? […]
What do pandas, orangutans, rhinos, and gorillas have in common? Aside from being animals that you probably only see at the zoo, these animals are all endangered. Scientists say an animal is ‘endangered’ when there aren’t many of them living in the wild anymore. And any kind of animal can become endangered — birds, insects, […]
[intro] In a new study published this week in the journal PLOS Biology, molecular biologists describe something unbelievable: the sequence of the oldest RNA discovered to date. This RNA is estimated to be a little over fourteen thousand years old. Its very existence challenges the long-held belief that ancient RNA just isn’t a thing. And […]