Engineers at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) have developed a shape-shifting 'morphing' wheel that changes its stiffness in real-time depending, on the situation to allow ...

an extraordinary space-age building towers over the sprawling slums below. El Helicoide was once the symbol of a rich and promising nation. Today, it houses one of Venezuela's most infamous jails ...

enriching a moneyed elite even as the poor cling to life in hillside shanty towns like the Petare slum above Caracas, home to half a million people. Despite gaping inequality, however, Venezuela ...

Nine Acclon volunteers began training in Cambridge this week for a year and a half of improvement work in Venezuela's slums. The group has been drawing on the resources of Harvard and other area ...

With Cuba for example low consumption bulbs plus medical and education services provided by thousands of Cuban para-medics and teachers working in slums of Caracas. Another way of helping the ...

Keddy Moreno lives in Venezuela's biggest slum, Petare, a neighbourhood of the capital, Caracas. She is prepared for military intervention - anything to end the hardships she faces on a daily basis.

The lack of foresight in turning away from such an obvious problem with such a workable solution is lamentable' ...