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The tail of a missile sticks out in a residential area in Yahidne, near of Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. 
Unmaking modern strategy: Part I
The sixth floor of the old Studebaker factory, about a fifth of a mile in length, in downtown Sound Bend, Indiana. A large cardboard photo shows the way the factory looked in the early 20th century, with almost 30,000 workers building cars at the Studebak
Economics
After a half-century, a Rust Belt town looks to restore its ‘temples’
Attendees of SXSW Interactive pass through the halls inside the Austin Convention Center.
Technology
There’s a buzz in the air at SXSW — but it’s not just about the technology
Ellis Island — which once welcomed millions of immigrants to the US — is pictured here shrouded in fog.
Global Politics
What immigration does for innovation
Executives meet at an IT Senior Management Forum gathering, a group that mentors senior African-American managers in STEM fields
Black Lives Rising (in STEM)
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Boyan Slat
Environment
Meet the 22-year-old with a big idea for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Shenzhen Maker Faire mobile display
Technology
The Maker Movement that was born in the USA has taken on Chinese characteristics
Shenzhen Maker Faire, June 2015
Maker Movement meets China
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brochure for the Biodesign Challenge
Science
How art and design students think about the future of biotech
America: Innovation Nation
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A journalist shows the new Kindle Voyage during a launch event in New York September 17, 2014.
Technology
How a Kindle’s e-ink system works
The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR).
Medicine
Would you trust a robot to perform your surgery?
African Growth, the U.F.O. Candidate, A Dream Database
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Indian startup entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to potential investors at the Startup Warehouse in Bangalore
Prepare to be Bangalore-d: India’s rising challenger to Silicon Valley
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Gecko hairs. Each tip is only 200 nanometers wide.
Science
Why nature is an engineer’s best inspiration
Japanese schoolchildren in Tokyo
Culture
What China could learn from Japan’s experience
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has a display of 3-D printed dresses and accessories.
Culture
A Boston museum is showing what the future of fashion might look like
Fostering Visionary Change in America
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Inside the Minds of America’s Greatest Black Inventors
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Patents: An Inventor’s Insurance Policy
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Transistors: America’s Greatest Innovation?
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Why America’s Money Men Won’t Fund Black Female Founders
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How Innovative Problem Solving Keeps You Safe
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America’s Greatest Innovation Is…
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Today’s Takeaways: Political Parties, American Cities, Gitmo
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Lousiana native Sam Craft taks to Wikitongues about his identity as a young Louisiana French speaker.
Culture
This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world’s languages
Today’s Takeaways: Drug Shortages, Self Driving Cars, Breeding Innovation
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An apple iPod
Technology
Apple is said to be considering upending the headphone market — by changing the ubiquitous jack
High above Denver's City Park
Culture
How Denver’s next-generation design can reduce inequality
Food
For one New York cidermaker, a variety of flavorful blends keeps the drink interesting
Organic flow battery
Technology
A breakthrough may make the mega flow battery commercially viable in the near future
Global outbreak monitoring map
Health
How a map could open new doors to predicting and understanding epidemic outbreaks
urban farming 1
Food
From the roof to the living room, startups tackle urban farming
Gary Cohen
Environment
A MacArthur ‘Genius’ is working to clean up our polluting health care system
PENSOLE students’ ideation wall showing their process. Photo by Marcus Yam
Technology
Is sneaker innovation changing how we move?
Sean Day has been a traditional London black cab driver for 14 years (Leo Hornak)
Business
London’s black cab drivers are demonstrating against app-based rides
Health
Is biking in the city bad for your health? Researchers want to find out.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Design for the Real World: Slots
An open sewer in Kenya
Environment
In sub-Saharan Africa, entrepreneurs explore whether sanitation could solve a growing fuel crisis — and vice versa
PureLiFi's illustration of moving from LTE to WiFi to LiFi. Image by Pure LiFi
Technology
LiFi? How your LED desk lamp could help you connect to the Internet.
A member of United Rescue and Jersey City Medical Center, Paul Sosman, in Israel learning from members of United Hatzalah.
Health
Jersey City is putting residents’ lives in their neighbors’ hands
An LGBT couple in Japan celebrate their nuptials.
Belief
Why an anime character can be openly gay in Japan, but you can’t
Air conditioning in China.
Environment
These non-air conditioned ways of keeping cool could make a huge difference with climate change
Japan's Nikkei share average dropped Tuesday to a more than two-week low.
Business
Japan’s still stodgy — but it may finally be getting better
Participants at the Kamacon town meeting break into groups and brainstorm about the potential projects.
Technology
There’s new life in Japan’s tech startup scene
Happy computer
Technology
Take a seat on the virtual couch with computers that can read your emotions
Newzbeat
Media
Ugandans tune in to watch Lady Slyke rap the news
Drones poaching team
Conflict
Predictive analytics combined with drone technology could help save South Africa’s rhinos
A Kurdish-Iraqi fighter checking his smart photo on the frontline outside Erbil, in Kurdistan.
Conflict
How do you behave in a war zone? There’s an app for that
Solar Impulse 2 parked in Japan
Technology
Solar-powered airplane lands safely, breaking flight record
Big rig
Technology
Self-driving trucks are already driving the highways near you
Arts, Culture & Media
Peter Nowak on ‘Sex, Bombs, and Burgers’
E-coli glows
Science
A community bio-tech lab offers a crash course in designing life — open to the public
Car and smartphone
Technology
Our cars are becoming another device on the Internet of Things
Shrimp trawler
Environment
A bright idea could help eliminate a fishing problem
Hiram Green shows off some of the raw essences that go into his perfumes. He's at Twisted Lily, a fragrance boutique in Brooklyn.
Lifestyle
Independent perfumers are making a big splash in the fragrance world
The elevator at Washington DC's historic Old Post Office Pavilion.
Technology
Elevators are kind of a big deal
Mariam Adil (far right) onstage at a Clinton Global Initiative University's conference with President Bill Clinton and other commitment makers. Image courtesy GRID Website
Technology
She’s shaking up the video game industry. From Pakistan
Environment
Will new garbage bins bring Toronto victory in its war on raccoons?
The MyFitnessPal app is seen on a smartphone in Golden, Colorado. Athletic clothing company Under Armour said it would pay $475 million for MyFitnessPal, a free app for tracking food habits and caloric intake.
Health
New apps hope to peer pressure you into eating healthy — for a healthy fee