New study: Vitamin D could be key for preventing arthritis
A new study found that maintaining sufficient vitamin D levels can help to prevent rheumatoid arthritis. The experts found tissue that was not diseased responded well to the so-called sunshine vitamin, suggesting it could be effective at preventing the onset of arthritis, which affects more than Read More...
Want to live in the Alps? This Swiss village will pay you to live there
As urbanization continues to push people towards the cities, towns and villages around the world are watching their populations dwindle. Villages like Albinen in Switzerland aren’t very happy to watch its young people leaving in great numbers, which is why they have come up with a radical way to Read More...
Costa Rica runs entirely on renewable energy for 300 days
Renewable Energy Costa Rica has charted another clean energy accolade. So far this year, the Central American country has run on 300 days on 100 percent power generation from renewable energy Read More...
Electric car sales surge 63 percent globally
Business Electric vehicles (EVs) continue to gain momentum on the world market. Global sales of electric and hybrid cars are 63 percent higher than the same quarter last year, and up 23 percent from the second quarter, according to a Read More...
7 ways to turn around your bad day in a few minutes
We all know the feeling of being overwhelmed, annoyed, and feeling like everything is going wrong at work. If you find yourself longing for your commute home, take a few minutes and use these expert and science-backed strategies to change your Read More...
India can get self-driving cars—despite its drivers, jaywalkers and cows
As global giants like Tesla, Uber, and Google take self-driving cars to the streets, Indian companies are still at the experimental stage. Earlier this year, local carmaker Tata Motors sought permission to test its driverless vehicle on Bengaluru’s Read More...
Urban wildlife plays a key role in keeping us humans healthy
Sharing our city blocks with trees, birds, and other animals is a good thing. As strange as it sounds, urban wildlife helps control the spread of diseases typically passed from animals to humans. Unfortunately, as the world continues to urbanize, more and more of the natural spaces found within Read More...
London’s iconic red buses to run on biofuel made from waste coffee grounds
Coffee powers more than just people, it’s also starting to power public transportation in London. Using a technique that extracts oil from waste coffee grounds, a technology firm has been able to create a biofuel that will be used to help power some of London’s famous busses starting this week. Read More...
Hydrogen cars could finally take off thanks to this new method of producing H2
Part of the reason that hydrogen cars haven’t made much of an impact yet is that producing hydrogen fuel is an expensive and energy-intensive process. Now, Researchers from Spain and Norway have come up with a new method to convert methane to hydrogen with almost no loss of energy, making Read More...
The more trees a neighborhood has, the less asthma attacks its people will have
In a recent study, researchers have found that people living in polluted urban areas are far less likely to have an emergency asthma attack when there are lots of trees in their neighborhood. What this reveals is that the expansion of tree cover in very polluted urban neighborhoods can work to Read More...