A privately funded initiative called “Be The People” will try to connect hundreds of millions of Americans with efforts to ...

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Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in ...

Staying positive and tackling roadblocks when the world seems to be on fire can be tough. A new book, “The Solution Mindset: ...

Further south, the Cape Town’s Maker Faire had its debuted this year. Its founder Omar-Pierre Soubra, a Frenchman living in the US. Maker Faire Africa is independent of Maker Faire US and seeks to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Paris climate agreement is another example of an attempted grand solution to a ...

When I first started working with multi-agent collaboration (MAC) systems, they felt like something out of science fiction. It’s a group of autonomous digital entities that negotiate, share context, ...

Microplastics are a growing concern in marine environments. As they break down, the particles can become microscopic. Oregon State University via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA While U.S. and global ...