The Pawn

People who are born with a silver spoon have their own elite playground. These most luxurious places are common to the affluent and considered to be luxury to many.

Scientists are planning to create a virus capable of destroying brain cancer.

San Francisco artist Andres Amador makes monumental designs on the beach with naught but a rake and some wet sand. He’s mindblowingly good at sand art—but he’s got competition. A small, orange Disn…

Five years ago, many villas in Phuket were built to suit only families and close friends. As a result, the villa would not be occupied or maintained particularly well and this often meant that the owners would be spending more money fixing the villa than using it for enjoyment

For the first time, the show floor included an area, called the Unmanned Systems Marketplace, set aside for unmanned aircraft and similar remote-controlled or autonomous products.

Testosterone may be the key to manliness, but it also stokes the growth of prostate cancer cells. So injections of the hormone might sound like the last thing a man with this type of cancer needs. But a new study shows that the shots can slow the progression of untreatable prostate tumors in some patients.

In the spirit of the “year in review” posts clogging up Facebook news feeds from San Francisco to Shanghai, here’s what Facebook’s year looked like!

Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.