Norway's newest ships give a glimpse into the future of sustainable seafaring
Western Norway’s rustic port village of Flåm, a remote goat-farming hamlet and summer escape set deep among the region’s icy fjords and towering, snow-capped peaks seems an unlikely launch site for the future of sustainable nautical Read More...
Flying cars may work best when tethered to power lines
Flying cars always work perfectly in the movies. But now that we’re close to actually building some, we’re finding they come with all sorts of Read More...
Why Bill Gates expects a huge wave of poverty reduction in Africa
While the pictures we see of Africa in the media or in donation campaigns show stark poverty and despair, these images don’t show the whole picture. In fact, when it comes to many important indicators such as literacy rates and childhood deaths, life in Africa has improved dramatically over the Read More...
A UK supermarket chain is giving black plastic packaging the boot
Black plastic packaging is not recyclable in the UK, as it cannot be detected by the sorting systems used for plastic recycling. That’s why Lidl, a supermarket chain in the UK, has announced it will remove black plastic from its entire fruit and vegetable range by the end of the month. The move Read More...
The view from an asteroid 280 million kilometers from Earth is incredible
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi film, but the space agency of Japan successfully landed two small rovers on an asteroid some 280 million kilometers away from earth. If you’re curious to see what the view is like from an asteroid, you have to check out these Read More...
This company is helping the homeless find jobs that also provide a home
A real estate company based out of Washington DC is helping homeless people find work and a home in one fell swoop. How? By hiring homeless candidates to work as property managers for apartment complexes and allowing them to live on-site for cheap. This not only helps those without a home, but also Read More...
Losing motivation? This practice will give you the drive you need to stay fit
Anyone who’s ever tried making a fitness a priority will tell you that staying “on track” is the most difficult part. Finding the initial motivation is easy, but working out on a consistent basis is where it gets challenging. According to researchers, however, there is a simple way to keep Read More...
Solving the carbon problem one blockchain at a time
Climate change is one of the most challenging collective problems the world has faced to date. Whether we will be able to curb our carbon emissions quickly enough to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change is still very much in Read More...
New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants. Rather than attempting to convert carbon dioxide into specialized chemicals using metal catalysts, which is currently highly challenging, this battery could continuously Read More...
Ten years since Occupy Wall Street, the cooperative movement is surging
Last week marked the seventh anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and 10 years since the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, which triggered the onset of the global financial crisis. The crisis also sparked massive global anti-capitalist movements, including Occupy Wall Read More...