Teachers use meditation apps in class to rewire kids' brains, improve performance
Brooke Waterman shuts the lights off in her classroom and the students settle in. Some sit with their legs Read More...
First California public floating solar power system delivered
Kelseyville County Waterworks District #3 will now host California's first floating solar power system. The innovative new design, announced by its producer, Ciel & Terre USA, will consist of a new 252 kW floating photovoltaic power system which will produce up to 1,650 kWh a year. The 720 Read More...
Elon Musk asks Tesla employees to test full self-driving version of Autopilot
The version of Autopilot that Elon Musk has long promised would make Tesla cars capable of driving themselves is reportedly being handed over to a small group of employees for testing, according to an internal email obtained by Bloomberg. In the email, Musk promised there were about 100 spots Read More...
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Scientists connect brains of three people
Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts and play a computer game. The team thinks the experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people. "Our results raise the possibility of future brain-to-brain Read More...
Swiss company opens a third plant capturing carbon dioxide from the air
Reducing CO2 emissions is a major objective for countries and industries. In the meantime, more and more efforts are undertaken to use technology to capture carbon dioxide from the air in an additional effort to mitigate the rise of global temperatures through “negative emissions”. Climeworks, Read More...
Supreme court rejects beach billionaire: public keeps access to surf spot
Too much money often leads to unhealthy behavior. A billionaire bought a beautiful stretch of California beach and then closed the popular spot to surfers. Eight years later the rule of law—and sanity—survives as the California Supreme Court denies taking up an appeal case to consider Read More...
California becomes first U.S. state to require women on company boards
Canada has as many female as male ministers in the government. The new Spanish government has more women than men. And recently, for the first time, women foreign ministers of almost 20 countries came together in Montreal. At the same time, gender equality still requires much more effort. That’s Read More...
‘It’s not about what you eat or how much, rather it is about when you eat’
More and more research shows the beneficial effects of intermittent fasting: limiting the hours of the day that you consume food and giving your body more hours for Read More...
Pot luck: the paint recyclers who put leftover gallons to good use
Rare is the DIY dilettante with the foresight to know they are never going to use the rest of that paint they stashed in the shed after doing up the living room. Who hasn’t kidded themselves that they really are going to touch up all those grubby spots with the leftovers in years to Read More...
Scientist discovers hidden mountain rainforest in Africa using Google Earth
In 2018, it may be hard to believe that there are still parts of the world that lie undiscovered. But one intrepid conservation scientist has shown that with a little patience, it’s possible to utilize some of the most easily accessible modern technology to explore the Read More...