Sat, Nov 17 2018

“Big decision. Let's make it work.” The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, I woke up determined to make a success of Brexit. I was surprised by how quickly I went to acceptance of the result, without passing through…

The writer Stewart Brand once wrote that “science is the only news.” While news headlines are dominated by politics, the economy, and gossip, it's science and technology that underpin much of the advance of human welfare and the…

On Wednesday morning, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's longtime second-in-command, posted her thanks to “everyone who uses Facebook to make the world a better, kinder, more compassionate place”. Congratulating users on raising a total of…

Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., the plant-care giant, had a problem: Millennials weren't gardening enough. So the company turned to one of the most renowned experts on millennial behavior, BuzzFeed Inc. But Scotts didn't just advertise on the site, known…

Verily, Alphabet 's life sciences arm, has paused work on its so-called 'smart lens' program, which was aiming to put tiny sensors on contact lenses to measure blood sugar levels in tears. If it worked, the lenses could help diabetics track their…