Astronauts to drink their own recycled pee

Astronauts on the International Space Station will soon be able to drink their own recycled urine using a new system delivered by NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour which launched Friday. Until now, pee has been dumped overboard, but the new “Water Recovery...

Death to Orangutans-by Girl Scout Cookies?!

It’s Girl Scout cookie season, but Michigan scouts Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva are finding other ways to support the organization’s mission of “building girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place” than...

Oh, the many shades of green

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 22, 2011 – 8:15am. Munich – Automaker BMW has launched a new $100 million venture capital investment unit, BMW i Ventures, which will back firms developing mobile and sustainable technologies. The unit’s first...