The Graffiti Utility Backpack has stoked controversy since it was made available, with critics voicing concern it “sends the wrong message” and “encourages vandalism.”

Where other cells would die, Mrs. Lacks' cells doubled every 20 to 24 hours. Today, these incredible cells— nicknamed "HeLa" cells, from the first two letters of her first and last names — are used to study the effects of toxins, drugs ...

When commercial giants want to capitalise on graffiti 'logos', it's time to protect street artists under copyright law.

What frustrates me is, as providers, we’ve lost our humanness and we cease to live when we forget about the human. In my practice, I give every patient my personal mobile number. I get a call in the middle of the night from Sarah. I could hear her hu ...

In computer-mediated communication, you would expect that because there aren’t many opportunities to signal irony and provide cues, like gestures or facial expressions, you would expect that people avoid it. But they don’t. The internet speaks for it ...

A number of Brooklyn-based street artists are pursuing legal action against McDonald’s for copyright infringement and false endorsement after the fast-food giant released an advertisement that features their works. The four-minute video, titled “McDo ...

AeroMobil announced that the first-ever production-ready flying car will be revealed at the exclusive supercar show Top Marques Monaco. Slovakia-based engineering firm AeroMobil unveiled its flying-car prototype in 2014, but it was not made commercia ...

Studies supporting the value of marijuana for treating a variety of medical conditions have been available for several decades. Although the plant itself cannot be patented, the process for manufacturing compounds can be, which leaves the door open t ...

The resulting development of this space over the past few years has transformed a wasteland into an organic commune-esque type development with buildings made from found materials, street art, sculpture and allotments all fitting within the space whi ...

Inventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink.

Vietnam is home to one of the largest African rhino horn consumer bases in the world. A unique graffiti campaign popped up on the walls of several streets in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, the hyperactive commercial capital of Vietnam. The works differed ...

The Department of Homeland Security's call for proposals for a wall to be built along the Mexico–US border elicited hundreds of designs. Here are six of them.

Chocolate was primarily used as medicine until the 19th century, when it began to be replaced by more specific treatments. Xoxalatl was a product of meso and southern America, the Mayans and other cultures of the region regarded it as sacred, and it ...

The researchers found that although the percentage of people who smoke has declined, the overall number of smokers has actually increased, thanks to population growth, according to the study, published April 5 in the journal The Lancet. The percentag ...

A new book from Fuel features previously unpublished anti-alcohol posters and graphic design from the 1960s to 80s in the Soviet Union.

A survey last year, though, found that many vinyl buyers don’t actually play their purchases or own turntables. So those records sitting untouched in the living room of hipsters all over America are most likely an expression of identity—of belonging ...

This won’t be the first street art museum in the world, Europe, or even in Amsterdam — the Street Art Museum Amsterdam, which is really more of an outdoor tour of street art than a traditional museum, has been around since 2012. But Coolen says his m ...

Stanford researchers report that the $6.6 billion figure is just the tip of the iceberg: It does not include costs of emergency room visits or hospital readmissions.

An ER physician laments the often-excessive care of older adults at the end of life, portraying it as a failure to recognize the full measure of their humanity.

A new exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows off 500 years of humanoid machines