How sunshine helps kill the germs in your home
Researchers in Oregon set up a study of dusty, dollhouse-size rooms to compare what happens in rooms exposed to daylight through regular glass and rooms kept in the dark. What they found was that the rooms exposed to daylight had fewer germs. In fact, the study showed that the lit rooms had about Read More...
Wind farms could be installed off the coast of California in just a few years
In the past week, California took major steps to enable companies to lease waters off the coast for wind projects. If all goes as the state’s regulators and utilities expect, floating windmills could begin producing power within six years. This is especially big news for the state as it attempts Read More...
Designers created a shipping container that mimics clouds to create clean water
In 2016, the competition asked designers to build a device that could extract at least 2,000 liters of water a day from the atmosphere, use clean energy, and cost no more than 2¢ a liter. From the competition came a shipping container that can use clean energy to extract clean waters out of thin Read More...
Forget the car: Here’s why you should start taking more walks
The simple act of walking can do wonders for your body and mind. From strengthening bones and shedding pounds to boosting your mood and improving your sleep, here are 10 eye-opening reasons to start walking Read More...
Google’s new long game: 100 percent clean energy all the time
Our time to move away from dirty energy to green sources is limited. Federal governments can’t be relied upon to push the conversion–especially not the one in the U.S., which is actively working against large-scale adoption of green Read More...
Hits and misses: How neuroscience can boost your creativity
The interesting part about how the brain works is that it loves novelty. And so if you present something over and over—the same thing—to the brain it quickly starts showing a smaller Read More...
China is adding a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks
Every five weeks, 9,500 brand new electric buses take to the roads in China. That’s the equivalent of the entire London bus fleet, says a report by Bloomberg New Energy Read More...
'We will not do hybrids:' Rolls-Royce has a plan to go straight to electric
Hoping to buy a Rolls-Royce hybrid at some point? It’s not going to happen. According to the BMW-owned company’s CEO, Torsten Müller-Otvös, Rolls-Royce will move straight to electric and will do so within the next 10 Read More...
How is the size of your home affecting your happiness and health?
Over the last four decades, Britain's living spaces have become much smaller. Earlier this year it was reported that UK living rooms have shrunk by a third, with the average lounge in a new-build home now 32 percent smaller than in equivalent homes built in the 1970s; kitchens are also 13 percent Read More...
Enter the AlloSphere with Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] New Frontiers: Pushing the Boundaries of the Possible [caption id="attachment_1350533" align="alignright" width="359"] Allosphere Director JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, a professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music at UC Santa Barbara. Photo Courtesy of the Read More...