flickr user John FowlerRemnants of the Chaco Canyon great houses are preserved today in Chaco Culture National Historic Park.In a colossal 650-room structure built over a millennia ago in present-day New Mexico, women ruled.This stone structure—dubbed Pueblo...

Fisher PriceAudio engineering can make computerized customer support lines seem friendlier and more helpful.Say you’re on the phone with a company and the automated virtual assistant needs a few seconds to “look up” your information. And then you hear...

Global Diversity Crop TrustSvalbard Seed BankThe Svalbard Seed Bank in Norway provides a backup repository for the world's agricultural crops.Today, the seeds of 49,000 varieties of crops—including cabbages, wheat, lentils, sweet peas, and many others—will...

pexelsWhen I saw the press release for a new study linking the risk of autism to maternal infection with genital herpes, my heart sunk. Because you can't put two scary buzzwords like "autism" and "herpes" into a press release without creating this kind...

St. Martin's PressPower PlayPower Play: How video games can save the world by Asi Burak and Laura Parker.The following is an excerpt from Power Play: How video games can save the world by Asi Burak and Laura Parker.One of the most successful examples of...

Thiele et al. Sci. Adv. 20173D-printed micro-cameraClusters of lenses were directly printed onto the chip.From body parts to supercars, the family of 3D printed products just keeps expanding. But in a study published last week in Science Advances, scientists...