Air pollution is a blight on cities around the world, and it isn’t just a temporary irritation. A recentstudy found that air pollution increases the risk of strokes and heart attacks even after short-term exposure.

What do you do with your daily newspaper once you’re done reading it? Do you throw it in the recycling bin, or maybe use it to line a birdcage? Designer Meike Meijer takes newspapers back to their origins by turning them into a wood-like building material

A team of theoretical physicists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Boston College has identified cubic boron arsenide as a material with an extraordinarily high thermal conductivity and the potential to transfer heat more effectively from el

It seems like every time we try to plug in a phone charger, the cable is just short enough that the phone can’t be comfortably used while it’s charging. On the other hand, earbud cables always seem to be ridiculously long.