6th February 2012 By Sebastian Anthony Guest Writer for Wake Up World A researcher at MIT, Andreas Mershin, has created solar panels from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead leaves. In a...
Category - Science and Technology
Wake Up World’s articles on science and technology, with particular focus on energy technologies and the ‘New Science’.
26 Facts About the Awful Conditions Where Your Gadgets are Made
4th February 2012 By Lois Becket – alternet.org Breaking down what we know about Foxconn, the massive factory in China where workers manufacture popular products like iPhones and iPads...
We’ll Frack Alberta’s Next Election, Vow Landowners
30th January 2012 By Andrew Nikiforuk – thetyee.ca Drilling accident fuels rebellion demanding halt to hydraulic fracturing. One of Alberta’s largest landowner groups says it...
Monsanto’s Infertility-Linked Roundup Discovered in All Urine Samples Tested
29th January 2012 By Anthony Gucciardi Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A recent study* conducted by a German university found very high concentrations of Glyphosate, a carcinogenic...
ACTA = Global Internet Censorship – Foreign Governments Will Be Able To Shut Down Websites
29th January 2012 By endoftheamericandream.com Global Internet censorship is here. SOPA and PIPA have been stopped (at least for now) in the United States, but a treaty known as ACTA (the Anti...
Mind Over Matter: The Placebo Effect
By Madison Ruppert Guest writer for Wake Up World The so-called placebo effect has been a subject of great interest for many scientists for years now. However, it is now being found that the...
SOPA and PIPA Still Alive – And a New Bill Joins Them
26th January 2012 Heather Callaghan – Activist Post Many of us breathed a sigh of relief when an overwhelming amount of Americans banned together and voiced their opposition to Congress...
Study Reveals: The Smell of Anxiety Prompts Empathy In Humans
By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Research indicates there is an olfactory (smell) based, evolutionary mechanism built into the human genome/soul to feel empathy for the...
Censor-Proof Satellite Internet Grid Being Developed
24th January 2012 By Madison Ruppert Contributing Writer for Wake Up World They call it the “Hackerspace Global Grid” and organizers say it would be made up of a network of low-orbiting...
Why GMO and Organic Can Not Co-Exist: Lateral Gene Transfer
23rd January 2012 By Sayer Ji – Wake Up World One of the most disturbing, though commonly overlooked properties of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is their documented ability to...
12 Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking
By Michael Michalko 1. You are creative. The artist is not a special person, each one of us is a special kind of artist. Every one of us is born a creative, spontaneous thinker. The only...
Scientists Link Mass Death of Honey Bees to Farm Insecticide
20th January 2012 Research by Purdue University Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee...