Resistance training is the most important form of exercise for your health
Pursuing big muscles isn’t the only outcome of weight lifting. According to a new study, strength or resistance training significantly lowers the risk for type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. During resistance training, your muscles are rapidly using glucose for energy. This energy Read More...
South Korea is creating 'healing forests' to improve its citizens’ health
Park Hyun-Soo didn’t look like a man on chemotherapy. Forty-one and with a full head of black hair, he can hike the socks off anyone, but he prefers to take his time. Not exactly a forest ranger, Park is part of a new breed of Korean Forest Agency employee known as a forest healing Read More...
2 million electric cars on the world's roads
The number of electric vehicles on roads worldwide rose to a record high of 2 million last year, but has a long way to go to reach levels needed to help limit an increase in global temperatures, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. In 2015, the number of electric cars, including Read More...
Renewable energy push is strongest in the reddest states in U.S.
These red states are not motivated by a sudden desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Nor are they joining solidly Democratic New York, Washington and California in defending the Paris climate agreement that President Trump walked away from last week. Instead, their leaders see tapping the Read More...
Cheap catalysts turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into fuel
Scientists have long dreamed of mimicking photosynthesis, by using the energy in sunlight to knit together hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide and water. Now, a cheap new chemical catalyst has carried out part of that process with record efficiency, using electricity from a solar cell to split Read More...
Here’s how a month of Zen meditation changed my life
On a trip to Japan last year, one of the places I visited was Kyoto, home to over 2,000 Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. During one of my daily walks exploring the city and its forested borders, I came across the Ryōan-ji temple, one of the most beautiful Buddhist temples in the world. As you Read More...
Hawaii becomes first state to enact law that aligns with Paris agreement
Hawaii has become the first state to enact a law that aligns with the Paris agreement after its governor signed two bills into law Tuesday that "support the commitments and goals" of the accord, Gov. David Ige's office announced Tuesday. The governor, as well as the state's county mayors and state Read More...
These repurposed shipping containers are growing fresh produce in Brooklyn
An indoor urban farm is producing fresh produce in the unlikeliest of places: In the back of a parking lot in Brooklyn. The urban farm consists of ten repurposed shipping containers equipped with vertical hydroponic growing systems and LED lights that allow the climate inside the container to be Read More...
Common antioxidant found to slow down usual signs of aging in the skin
People have long searched far and wide for a natural way to keep the skin looking young, and now it seems scientists have finally found it in the form of a common antioxidant. The antioxidant, methylene blue, helps the skin retain more water and increases its thickness—thus reducing lines and Read More...
Bob Dylan finally gave his Nobel Prize lecture. Listen to it here
A grandiose cash prize awaits those who win the prestigious Nobel Prize, but to collect the money, the winner must give a lecture within six months after the prize ceremony. The winner of the 2016 Nobel prize was the notoriously reticent American musician Bob Dylan, who stayed silent for two weeks Read More...