Thousands of people charged with nonviolent misdemeanors are often jailed because they cannot afford bail. Two ingenious new digital tools offer ways to help.
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These solar panels that can pull clean drinking water out of the air just got a big boost
Zero Mass Water makes solar panel arrays that pull clean drinking water from the air.
The $4,500 arrays just launched in the United States.
Zero Mass arrays could come in handy in areas where water sources are far away or scarce. Some homeowners have purchased arrays as an alternative to plastic water bottles.
Why Americans have stopped eating leftovers
The United States’ massive food waste problem has an easy fix: People could start eating their leftovers.
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This library of street drugs predicts mass overdoses
Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs.
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One in five American children live with hunger
The United States has one of the worst rates of child hunger among high-income countries. A recent UNICEF analysis puts it in perspective: About 20% of American children live in food-insecure households, meaning they lack access to safe and nutritious foods.
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Where Americans are most likely to be killed by gun violence
On Sunday night, a gunman killed at least 59 people and injured 527 others on the Las Vegas Strip. The shooter, identified as Stephen Paddock, open fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino into a crowd of thousands below who were attending a country music festival.
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Electromagnetic pulse threat from North Korea
While the world has been fixated on North Korea’s growing nuclear missile arsenal, the rogue state’s threats against the West now include a weapon that can take down a country’s electricity grid.
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The 10 most serious problems in the world, according to millennials
For the third year in a row, millennials who participated in the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Survey 2017 believe climate change is the most serious issue affecting the world today.
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8 billion-dollar mega-projects that will transform the world’s greatest cities by 2030
The world is rapidly urbanizing. The United Nations predicts that the number of people living in cities could double by 2050 — to 6.5 billion.
Robots and AI are going to make social inequality even worse, says new report
Rich people are going to find it easier to adapt to automation.
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We’ve been worrying about the end of work for 500 years
Will machines take over jobs? We’ve been wondering for hundreds of years
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Scientists built an external womb to help premature infants survive
For expecting parents, 24 weeks is an important milestone. It’s a little more than halfway through pregnancy, and it’s at this age that the fetus has at least a fighting chance of surviving outside its mother’s body. The odds of survival aren’t great—only about half of babies birthed at this age survive—but it’s possible.
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