Harvard scientists say doing this can lower your blood pressure
You know that fight-or-flight feeling: tense muscles, pounding heart, rapid breathing and sky-high blood pressure. We're a nation of stressed-out workers tackling too many tasks, and an endless supply of office scenarios can trigger that Read More...
How to assess new solar technologies
Which is a better deal: an established, off-the-shelf type of solar panel or a cutting-edge type that delivers more power for a given area but costs more? It turns out that’s far from a simple question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best Read More...
Bad habits you must immediately break to improve your life in the next 100 days
Habits define us. And nothing sabotages your creativity and productive life quite like bad habits. In the words of Samuel Johnson “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be Read More...
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...