App finds the most scenic route through a city
Most of us use apps to find our ways through cities. And when we do we look for the shortest route. But what if it were possible to find the most beautiful route through a city? That’s the objective of a new mobile application built by Yahoo Labs in Barcelona, Spain. The app works like any other Read More...
Make you feel better online shopping
The growth of online shopping is exploding. And leader Amazon argues that online shopping increases efficiencies that serve society as well as the planet. But what about all those boxes? Designer Yu-Chang Chou has reinvented shipping packaging. Right now you buy something online, it’s shipped to Read More...
Blood tests gives hope for early Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Trials focused on preventing and treating Alzheimer’s have been largely unsuccessful in the past, and researchers believe this is because the treatments start too late. New research from King’s College London has identified ten proteins that could serve as indicators of the onset of Read More...
The most creative sustainable solutions
A refrigerator made of clay, an energy bar made from crickets, and a recycle-ATM: the sustainable top 100 from the organization Sustainia is a yearly smorgasbord of creativity. Every year Sustainia presents the Sustainia 100, an overview of a hundred innovative, sustainable solutions from all over Read More...
Extreme poverty cut in half since 2000, UN exceeds goals
Global Millennium Developmental Goals set by the United Nations in 2000 are being met, and before anticipated. A major milestone of the Millennium Developmental Goals initiative– slashing extreme poverty 50% by 2015 has been met a year early. Other targets like reducing the gap between the number Read More...
Organic food is “significantly” healthier than non-organic produce
A team of scientists from the University of Newcastle has found that organic food has higher levels of antioxidants, and lower levels of toxic metals and pesticides. In the most comprehensive study done on organic food to date, researchers concluded the difference between organic and non-organic is Read More...
Products made from a natural resource that grows: Human hair
UK based Studio Swine has started using human hair to make its new product line– ranging from vanities to hair combs. Studio Swine lays the hair into a sustainably sourced pine–based resin that gives the effect of tortoise shell after it is done Read More...
Cinnamon: a simple way to fight Parkinson’s disease
Neurologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have found that cinnamon has the ability to reverse biomechanical, cellular and anatomical changes that are caused by Parkinson’s disease. The study discovered that after the body metabolizes cinnamon into sodium benzoate it enters the Read More...
Want a happier baby? Try dancing with it.
Researchers have long been studying the relationships between infants and music, but a new study from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada has discovered that interacting with an infant while music is playing can help enhance social relationships. The study found that when people synchronize Read More...
She surfs sea swells
Surfing stories have long been about freedom and leaving the world behind on the quest for the perfect wave. That is not the story Brown Girl Surf tells. Founded in 2011 by Farhana Huq, Brown Girl Surf shares the exploits of ground breaking female surfers around the world and reveals what they Read More...