This liberal arts school prepares students for the jobs of tomorrow
Colleges have always been about getting students prepared for a career, but all too often, the education given at liberal-arts schools isn’t so useful for getting and maintaining a career. A small college in Maine is trying to change that by embedding the idea of “purposeful work”—broadly Read More...
The EU is banning this widely-used bee-killing insecticide
Insecticides are killing bee populations in Europe at an alarming rate. To save our beleaguered pollinators, the European Union has moved to ban the most widely used insecticides for use in fields. Recent research showed these insecticides were not only killing insects rapidly, but were also Read More...
Electric busses can solve some of America’s biggest transportation problems
Personal vehicles are probably the most challenging vehicles to electrify cost-effectively. (Dragging one or two passengers around over long distances in a 2-ton vehicles takes a lot of energy.) Electric busses, on the other hand, are the ideal candidates for electrification as they can transport Read More...
Natural antibiotics can help us beat drug-resistant viruses
Superbugs is the name given to the strains of bacteria that are nowadays resistant or immune to most of the antibiotics. They can fight back the effects of the antibiotics, making their use equal to useless. However, there is a solution: natural antibiotics. Take a look here to see everything you Read More...
Smart exercise helps you age well and feel young. Here’s how to do it
Physical decline as the body ages is inevitable, something to be grumbled about, accepted and dealt with. That fundamental law has not changed, but the way we manage aging has. Getting older need not mean getting weaker, at least not until the end is truly near. Just look at athletes like Roger Read More...
Three-minute brain stimulation found effective for hard-to-treat depression
A new study finds that a three-minute version of a brain stimulation treatment is just as effective as the standard 37-minute version for Read More...
How traditional health claims about India’s ayurvedic foods make big business
In India, you can buy saffron that is “useful in asthma, indigestion, body pain, fever, dry skin diseases and pregnancy”, ghee that increases “memory power”, intellect and digestion, and lemon pickle that “improves your immunity level and helps the human body develop resistance against Read More...
Big businesses are saying no to plastic trash in the UK
Over 40 companies including Coca-Cola, Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble have pledged to slash the amount of plastic they use and throw away in the United Read More...
10 of the tallest trees in the world
Trees may be stuck in the ground, but they've clearly got some enviable traits – I mean, who wouldn't want to live in a pretty forest for a few thousand years? But despite all the things that trees are famous for, it's perhaps their height that inspires the most reverie. Humans may have a lot of Read More...
The last Indian village without electricity now has power
In a big step towards nation building, the Indian government has claimed that the last Indian village which had not been electrified was brought in the national power grid on Read More...