The ten most ambitious mega-projects currently under development around the world, featuring: Dubai World Central Airport (United Arab Emirates); Songdo International Business District (South Korea); Tokyo-Osaka Maglev Train (Japan); Masdar City (United Arab Emirates); The Grand Canal (Nicaragua); N...

Near the start of the 20th century, a mysterious and deadly virus terrified Americans, particularly infecting young kids: Polio. Correspondent Rita Braver looks at the scientific arsenal brought to combat the epidemic and develop a vaccine, and talks with documentary filmmaker Carl Kurlander ("The S

Each year nearly a million people in Europe suffer from a cardiac arrest. A mere 8% survives due to slow response times of emergency services. The ambulance-drone is capable of saving lives with an integrated defibrillator. The goal is to improve existing emergency infrastructure with a network of d...

East Side Access is the massive mainline rail project New York City has been working on for the past few decades, and it'll bring a brand new terminal to Grand Central Terminal, alongside Long Island Rail Road services. The culmination of the East Side Access project will be the opening of Grand Cen...

Iron Dome is a mobile air defense system in development by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems designed to intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells. The system was created as a defensive countermeasure to the rocket threat against Israel's civilian population on its northern and southern bord...

Biofase has completely changed and revolutionized the plastic industry, not only is it the first enterprise to produce plastic from organic food sources, it also offers its goods at a fair price, comparable with traditional plastics. Biofase produces organic plastics from avocado seeds, traditionall...

In September 2012, Toronto Marlies Head Coach Dallas Eakins invited You Can Play co-founder Patrick Burke and out gay hockey player Scott Heggart to address the team. At the end of the presentation, the players asked if they could find ways to get involved with You Can Play that went beyond just mak...

The Agave Project is a way for us to honor our roots, aimed at continuing Cuervo’s longstanding commitment to the land and people of Tequila and Mexico. The latest creation to come out of The Agave Project is a drinking straw made from upcycled agave fiber. The first-of-its-kind biodegradable, bio-b

This animated artwork creates amazing optical illusions. The final animation is sort of an encore of 2 previous popular animations. There was pacman and there was the gun. So I combined them. Pacman eating the bullets from the gun. Below are links to the images found in this video so you can print t...

Pump Up the Bass to Douse a Blaze: Mason Students' Invention Fights Fires. Sound-blasting fire extinguisher prototypes have been developed by George Mason University Electrical and Computer Engineering students Viet Tran and Seth Robertson in Seattle, Washington. The fire extinguisher uses low-freq...