10th January 2011 By Naimul Haq – aljazeera.com Much of Bangladesh’s rural population lived without electricity until low power solar systems transformed their lives. The sun...
Category - Science and Technology
Wake Up World’s articles on science and technology, with particular focus on energy technologies and the ‘New Science’.
Chemicals in Fast Food Wrappers Show Up in Human Blood
10th January 2012 By ens-newswire.com Chemicals used to keep grease from leaking through fast food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags are migrating into food, being ingested by people and...
Researchers Close to Matrix-Style Learning
9th January 2012 By Madison Ruppert Contributing Writer for Wake Up World As every week passes, the world becomes more like a science fiction film. Some of these developments are nothing short of...
Toxic Botulism in Animals Linked to Monsanto’s RoundUp Herbicide
23rd December 2011 By Rady Ananda Dr Mercola recently interviewed Dr Don Huber, whose letter to the USDA warning that Monsanto’s RoundUp, a broad-spectrum “herbicide”...
The Future Of The Internet’s Here & It’s all About Citizen Surveillance
23rd December 2011 By Neal Ungerleider – fastcompany.com Two new studies are offering a sneak peak into the future of the Internet: 24/7 digital surveillance of citizens is about to...
Funding Cut Over Chimpanzees Used as Lab Subjects for Invasive Medical Research
22nd December 2011 By Anthony Gucciardi Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Animal testing is a controversial subject not only in the United States, but around the globe. Chimpanzees, among other...
Rupert Murdoch Pushing to Restrict the Internet
17th December 2011 By Madison Ruppert Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Today the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee deliberated over the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA...
Can the Desert Sun Power the World?
December 14th 2011 By Leo Hickman – guardian.co.uk During the summer of 1913, in a field just south of Cairo on the eastern bank of the Nile, an American engineer called Frank Shuman...
A Deliciously Resourceful Town Aims For Total Food Self-Sufficiency Within 7 Years
By Vincent Graff dailymail.co.uk Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too. Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of...
Living in an Underground Home
12th December 2011 By Merle J. Alix MotherEarthNews.com Here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we start getting snow in mid-November, though it doesn’t usually amount to much more than an...
Could the US Government Implement a Kill Switch for Mobile Phones?
8th December 2011 RT News Following the decision from city officials in San Francisco to kill mobile phone service at a moment’s notice throughout the Bay Area, the FCC is examining how a...
Single Lady Transforms Her Urban Garden into a Productive, Organic, Tropical Paradise
By Nicola Chatham – permaculture.org.au You don’t have to know her street number to find Rosina Buckman’s place. All you need is the street name. Winner of the Edible...