Category: People
New CO2 Sucker Could Help Clear the Air
Researchers in California have produced a cheap plastic capable of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Down the road, the new material could enable the development of large-scale batteries and even form the basis of “artificial … Continue reading
Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu
In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of “The Coming Plague,” gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant than ever. … Continue reading
Angelina Jolie film bears witness to rape in war
Editor’s note: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a fellow and deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council of Foreign Relations. She writes extensively about women entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Bosnia and Rwanda. She … Continue reading
Glimpsing the God Particle
Large Hadron Collider results suggest that one of most eagerly awaited scientific discoveries is within reach. CERN announced today that it had almost, but not quite, found the Higgs Boson, a subatomic particle that gives objects mass. Two experimental teams … Continue reading
Apple Is Planning To Release The iPad 3 On February 23 For Steve Jobs’ Birthday!
We start This Week In Apple Rumors with a bit of hearsay that numerologists, conspiracy theorists, overeager consumers and overly credulous Apple-watchers alike can all rally around: According to Chinese-language newspaper, the Economic Daily News, Apple is rushing production … Continue reading
North Koreans keep mourning their leader
Mourners in the North Korean capital Pyongyang continued to brave sub-zero temperatures to pay their respects to late leader Kim Jong-il on Saturday, one week after his death. At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we … Continue reading
Steve Jobs’ statue unveiled in Hungary
A seven-foot tall bronze statue dedicated to Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, has been unveiled in Budapest. At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we think that the mission of a news channel is … Continue reading
Graceful Moves, for a Boy Made of Metal
PHILADELPHIA — What makes an automaton tick? For the one on display at the Franklin Institute here, the answer is: a couple of hefty spring motors. The automaton, a mechanized doll built more than two centuries ago by the Swiss … Continue reading
Savage Rivale gets out of our dreams and into a car
What the world needs now is love, sweet love. That’s what The Carpenters would tell you, anyway – but we beg to differ. What the world needs now, in our opinion, is four-door convertibles. Because while many have experimented with … Continue reading