Floating city for startups makes waves among entrepreneurs
Blueseed, the startup ship that will bring Silicon Valley to the open waters, is quickly gaining steam among entrepreneurs. The company recently released a report announcing that it already has 133 startup firms interested in becoming tenants of its floating city. Of this group of interested entrepreneurs, 38 percent say they would be ready to [...]

World’s largest preserve forming in Africa
Five nations in Africa have come together to create the world’s largest conservation area for wildlife. Elephants have no respect for lines on a map, especially the artificial national boundaries established by Europeans after carving up Africa into colonial empires. But national boundaries have kept elephants and many other animals cooped up in southern Africa. [...]

Community Groups Join Forces to Support Clean Energy and Save Money
In the depths of the recession, when budgets were tighter than usual, a group of churches in Washington, D.C., noticed energy bills were eating up huge chunks of their budgets. “The huge amount our institutions were paying for electricity just astounded with us,” says Martin Trimble, lead organizer with the Washington Interfaith Network, an organizing [...]

Africa Sci-tech Forum Promotes Homegrown Innovation
Experts and officials gathered at the first Africa Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation in Nairobi, Kenya are seeking African solutions to African problems.  Participants are calling for African governments to fund and promote research and development at home. U.N. Economic Commission for Africa Technology Division Director Aida Opolu-Mensah says for too long Africa’s science [...]

Hope of fresh treatment for seven cancers after single antibody is found to shrink tumours
A drug that helps the immune system to break down cancerous tumours has been developed. It has worked on breast, bowel, prostate, ovarian, brain, bladder and liver cancers, while previous studies show it can also be used to fight some blood cancers. If given early, the drug could even be a cure, researchers say. The [...]

Make the climate debate about bills – not bears
By – Caroline Flint MP of guardian.co.uk “To build public support, we have to speak about climate change in a way that addresses concerns about prices, jobs and security” I have a simple rule of thumb for everything in politics: our starting point should always be where the public is. That doesn’t mean we finish [...]

Plant sunflowers and help solve an unfinished Turing experiment
1+1+2+3+5+8+13+21+34+55+89+144 Recognise that sequence of numbers? It is called the ‘Fibonacci phyllotaxis’ and computer pioneer Alan Turing was working to solve a mathematical riddle that he worked on before his death in 1954. Now thousands of sunflowers will be planted in his honour as part of a new research project led by MOSI (Museum of [...]

Device invented that can detect infectious disease in minutes
Infectious diseases can spread very rapidly, so quickly identifying them can be crucial to stopping an epidemic. However, current testing for such diseases can take hours and days. But not for much longer. Jayne Wu, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Shigetoshi Eda, associate professor of [...]

Bright Is The New Black: New York Roofs Go Cool
On the hottest day of the New York City summer in 2011, a white roof covering was measured at 42 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the traditional black roof it was being compared to, according to a study including NASA scientists that details the first scientific results from the city’s unprecedented effort to brighten rooftops and [...]

Protests Shut Down Monsanto in Davis CA.
A coalition of activist organizations demonstrating at the Monsanto office in Davis CA. successfully caused a shutdown of the multinational chemical and biotech company offices there on on Saturday, March 16. The shutdown took place on the first day of a planned weekend of activities in Davis, intended to spotlight and oppose the activities of [...]