Two days after Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, the Pew Research Center released a poll ranking the issues that Americans said were the most important priorities for this year. At the top of the list were several concerns — ...
Two days after Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, the Pew Research Center released a poll ranking the issues that Americans said were the most important priorities for this year. At the top of the list were several concerns — ...
For the past few years, Jerry and Monique Sternin have been working with hospitals around the country to reduce the spread of a hospital-borne infection known as M.R.S.A. The Sternins take an unorthodox approach to problem-solving known as positive ...
One afternoon last May in Menlo Park, California, a venture capitalist named Ray Lane led me from his office to the parking lot, where an automobile had been delivered a few hours earlier by flatbed truck. The car, built in Norway, was powered by ...
Off the Grid: Bloom Energys fuel cells, a low-emission, fuel flexible power source and one of Kleiner Perkinss biggest green-tech bets. Ausra, a start-up in Palo Alto, Calif., uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy on water pipes to produce steam ...
Philanthropy’s largest problem these days probably isn’t a lack of big gifts. Over the past few years, new records have been set in the number of individual donations of $100 million or more, and talking with those in the philanthropic community who ...
Can legendary Bell Labs--and its struggling parent, Alcatel-Lucent--be saved by a "crazy risk taker" who's betting that innovation can be captured in a mathematical formula? One afternoon this past summer, Jeong Kim took a seat at a quiet back table ...
U.S. patent 2,817,025 was issued almost exactly 50 years ago to a slight, soft-spoken Austrian immigrant who worked in the industrial labs of the Zenith corporation on the West Side of Chicago. Robert Adler was an accomplished physicist who adored ...
Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country’s fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities. By comparison, the ...
For much of the past century, the hills and valleys around Los Angeles have been a kind of developers’ paradise, a patchwork of expansive ranches, many dating to the 1840s and 1850s, that supplied builders with a seemingly endless stock of raw acreage. ...
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