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Safecast want your help to deploy up to 600 more Geiger Counters in Japan.

Daytum charts everything and anything about your life.

A new detector film technology from Fraunhofer may soon make its way to your local grocery store, where it will be able to tell you if you really should buy that jumbo pack of chicken.

Three towns in Maine have passed Food Freedom legislation that overrides federal government interference in local food production.

Giving has never been as easy or as painless as it is with Philanthroper.

Scientists have developed a new polymer that heals itself when exposed to light.

A team of six Girl Scouts has made an effective prosthetic hand from moldable plastic, comfort foam and Velcro.

TED wants to know if you have ideas worth spreading.

A new website gives homosexuals in the Middle East a much needed forum to address their issues.

Scientists have discovered that growing sugarcane reduces the temperature.

The Knight Foundation and Mozilla Foundation are offering paid fellowships to journalism's future innovators.

The Solar Probe Plus has one ultimate goal: crash into the Sun.

Students from the Brigham Young University have come up with a really innovative gadget that can serve as a useful tool for the disabled that costs a whole lot less than the available commercial alternatives available in the market.

StatPlanet lets you interact easily with a wealth of World Bank data.

Learning a language will never have been so fulfilling, and online translations will never have been so accurate once Duolingo comes online.