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Dutch solar car wins top tech award
The winner for Best Technology Achievement at this year’s Tech Crunch Crunchies, a ceremony that awards the top tech breakthroughs that occurred over the past year, was given to a Dutch solar car called Stella. Stella is a four-seat solar car capable of travelling up to 500 miles on a single Read More...
Foods you can eat after they “expire”
Food waste is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gasses in landfills. Our throwaway society can convince you to throw away countless pounds of food, but here are a few items that can live past their expiration date. Eggs are fine to eat often far past their expiration date. If there’s any Read More...
Dubai’s municipal vehicles will run on 100% biodiesel
Dubai will soon be the first municipality in the world to run all of its vehicles—buses included—on cleaner biodiesel. Biodiesel is made from reused cooking oil and pollutes 84 percent less than conventional fossil diesel. All biodiesel used in Dubai’s vehicles will be sourced from inside the Read More...
Taxi drivers form co-op to take on Uber, Lyft
Ride sharing is a bit of a double-edged sword: It empowers people to use their own cars to make a couple extra bucks, but the low fares that draw many consumers are causing cabbies to see their ridership dwindle. Now taxi cab drivers in Denver have bound together to form a cooperative where each Read More...
Branson calls on businesses to eliminate emissions
Richard Branson, the overtly vocal leader of his Virgin enterprise, has called on the world’s businesses to remove the strain of carbon emissions from the global economy. Branson’s goals are ambitious and exceed those targeted by the G8, the group of 8 richest nations in the world, to reduce Read More...
Octopus inspired underwater vehicle
In order to reach top speeds under water most creatures, and vehicles, are sleek and streamlined—except cephalopods. Octopus and other cephalopods get up to top speed with their rigid outer bodies by quickly shooting out ingested water. Now engineers have taken the same idea and applied it to Read More...
Kids exposed to healthy foods are more likely to favor them when they’re older
Figuring out what’s healthy isn’t hard—the less processed, and more raw—vegetables, not meat—the better. But kids often want the sweet, sugary stuff and as parents we want to make them happy. But as it turns out the foods we feed our kids when they’re young impacts the decisions they Read More...
CNBC launches crowdfunding index
From Kickstarter to Indiegogo, crowdfunding is growing in popularity and is a business realm changing rapidly. Now CNBC has partnered with Crowdnetic, a company that tracks and analyses crowdfunding projects, to launch a new crowdfunding index. The new index will give people an inside view at Read More...
Robotic lasers take out brain tumors with precision
One of the hardest parts of removing brain a tumor is taking out the right amount of matter. You don’t want to take out too much brain matter, because ever piece is vital, but if you don’t take out enough of the tumor, then you risk having it grow back. Scientists have recently developed a way Read More...
Bad smells help smokers quit
Menthol cigarettes—cigarettes with added menthol for mint flavor—are actually more addictive than regular cigarettes. Why? Because the minty smell of menthol is itself addicting, and when added to cigarettes makes them even more so. Scientists have taken that idea, and reversed it, adding a Read More...