Sweden to get Europe's biggest car battery factory
Start-up company Northvolt said Thursday it had picked its home country Sweden to build Europe's biggest factory for electric car batteries, rivaling Tesla's American "Gigafactory". The company said it had selected Skelleftea, a coastal town in the country's industrial north-east, for the site Read More...
This startup turns climate pollution into fish feed
At the rate at which we’re harvesting fish from the ocean, we may not have enough food to feed farmed fish, let alone humans. That’s why a startup is replacing fish food with something more sustainable: microbes grown with carbon dioxide. The startup feeds carbon dioxide to microbes that can Read More...
Can humans communicate telepathically with another while they’re dreaming
What if while in the midst of a dream, you encountered a close friend of yours and had a conversation that you both recalled the next day. Dream telepathy suggests that human beings could actually communicate with one another while dreaming. See here what the studies are saying about the Read More...
Unlock the power of vegetables and greens using oil
When you put oils such as extra virgin olive oil on greens and salads, your body can absorb the nutrients better. In fact, the oils unlock eight micronutrients that your body doesn’t process properly without oil. Researchers say these micronutrients help prevent cancer and improve eyesight among Read More...
Defibrillator drones could slash emergency response times in the US
A startup is working on a system where defibrillators are carried by drone directly to the site of a cardiac arrest. The idea is that by avoiding infrastructure and traveling through the air, drones could reduce emergency response times, which is especially important for cardiac arrests where every Read More...
How to start eating the “right” kinds of carbs
The popularity of low-carb diets sends a message to people that we should drastically cut back on this food group, but the truth is carbohydrates are some of the most important things we consume. They are key to regulating blood sugar and providing energy throughout our bodies. In short, carbs are Read More...
Designing suburbs to cut car use closes gaps in health and wealth
Large health inequalities exist in Australia. Car ownership and its costs add to the health inequalities between low-income and high-income households. The physical characteristics of neighborhoods influence our transport use and, in turn, make health inequalities better or Read More...
Google and Goldman Sachs are two of the most active investors in blockchain firms
Google and Goldman Sachs are two of the most active corporate investors in blockchain companies, according to a report. Blockchain is the underlying technology behind cryptocurrencies like Read More...
Regreening the planet could lower carbon levels and end use of fossil fuels
There’s a new study out spearheaded by The Nature Conservancy and published in the Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences which presents a series of 20 steps that can be taken to naturally mitigate the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Taken together, the effect on carbon Read More...
The key to solving one of cities’ biggest problems? Think small
Climate change is one of our generation’s biggest challenges–and most confusing policy problems. The country’s top politicians are busy rolling back protections. Cities are plowing ahead with resiliency plans. There’s still little consensus on how best to approach climate change’s Read More...