Battery innovation: your coffee waste can power your phone
The lithium-ion batteries that power your phone, your laptop as well as electric vehicles, use natural and artificial graphite. Graphite—a kind of carbon—is not cheap. That’s why researchers in Taiwan were searching for a replacement substance. They started experimenting with another source Read More...
Climate change: it’s not a solar panel, it’s a woman
Most people think about installing more solar panels and windmills when it comes to reducing carbon emission and global warming. However, there’s something else that will have an even bigger positive impact: elevating the role of women, particularly in the developing world. Education of girls and Read More...
Scientists discover enzyme that plays a key role in many inflammatory disorders
Overwhelming research shows that inflammation lies at the root of most degenerative diseases from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's to osteoarthritis and cancer. But what causes the inflammation? Researchers have identified one enzyme that plays a key role in a biological mechanism common to many Read More...
How one simple question can make you feel a whole lot better
A sweet story about a reporter discovering that a simple question from a teenager in rural India can lift one out of self-obsessed anxiety, stress and depression. Connection is all it Read More...
Village without cars collects water and energy, grows food, processes waste
A high-tech ecovillage planned outside Amsterdam in the Netherlands is to provide a glimpse of a future of sustainable living. The village will be nearly self-sufficient as it collects and stores water and energy, grows food, and processes much of its own Read More...
The relationship between germs, gut health, inflammation and Alzheimer's
The invention of sewage pipes increased our lifespan from 35 to 50. Antibiotics took us to an average lifespan of 75. Now we face the next health challenge: viruses and microbes that cause inflammation. Infection is at the root of all degenerative diseases from Alzheimer’s and cancer to Read More...
Wildfire prevention Portugal style: goats
Wildfires threaten environments around the world. There’s a prevention method that has been tested over centuries: goats. Last year deaths from wildfires in Portugal reached a record high of 106. This summer, however, hundreds of goats are being deployed to eat underbrush and dry vegetation that Read More...
New powerful drug against malaria, scientists face one more challenge
Malaria is still a big killer in developing countries. In 2016, the disease claimed 455,000 lives and caused 216 million cases. A new drug has been approved that provides a potent, new weapon against malaria: it can wipe out the parasite from a person's body with a single dose. There’s still a Read More...
These three words that you use all the time are in the way of your success
Almost everyone says these words many times a day. Words have power. Our brain responds to the way we use language when we talk and the way we use language in our thoughts. That’s why you should not say: “I have to…”. That sounds like a burden. If you say “I get to” instead you tell Read More...
Think Global, Eat Local (Part I)
By Sadie Wilbur, Editorial Intern, July 2018 “A garden is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense." – Wendell BerryDirty Hands, Happy Heart My love for all things green began when I was a young girl. I grew up alongside a Read More...