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Turn off your Zoom video and help the planet

The pandemic has forced us indoors and using more data than ever before, putting more strain on the environment

And as South Africa marks Human Rights Day, thirty years after human dignity was written into law, this is the reckoning we cannot postpone.

The poverty of poor economics

The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty

Choices: The Options exhibition is made up of diagrams and schema such as ‘prop 8 [prou(k)n]’, 2018

Worming into the guts of the unseen

The exhibition ‘Options’ is a search by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis for humanity

Sherry Marts, Beth Ann McLaughlin and Tarana Burke. (Ed Boyden/Twitter)

MIT honours #MeToo movement trailblazers

The 2018 Media Lab Disobedience Award has been awarded to three leading figures behind the #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM movements

Towards schooling that transforms

Towards schooling that transforms

The education we offer many learners is not providing an escape from poverty.

Students take images of Earth from space on a shoestring

An American science student has captured images of the curvature of the Earth after sending a balloon into space on a shoestring budget.

Nanotechnology makes clean, efficient conductor

By crushing a widely used semiconductor into nanoparticles, researchers said this week they have created a compound that could lead to cleaner, more efficient refrigerators,…

Your next gadget may come with a surprise

From iPods to navigation systems, some of today’s hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal…

Dream of one laptop per child starts to deliver

Low-cost computers meant to usher poor children worldwide into the digital age are being mass-produced in China as United States non-profit One Laptop Per Child strives to…

Gehry sued over leaky university building

It was supposed to be a geek palace for some of the brightest people on the planet. Dissonant angles, sloping floors, an exterior that suggested some sort of implosion — these…