Bringing a breath of fresh air to the UK’s polluted cities
Featuring a sturdy leather head-strap and mask, two large tubes and a transparent backpack containing a small potted plant, designer Chih Chiu’s response to crowded, polluted cities is stark. “My initial idea was to separate an individual from the public space,” he says. Read More...
Here's where the 10 federal self-driving test sites in the U.S. are
The U.S. Department of Transportation picked 10 official sites for developing and testing self-driving car technology, one of the last actions the agency made under the leadership of former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The DOT made the announcement Thursday, Foxx's last day as Read More...
Study: For health and happiness, share good news with your partner
Service members, including both active and recently separated, have been called upon to fight overseas and to assist during natural disasters at home. They can face unique challenges when they return in both the workplace and at home. New research, focused on service member couples in Oregon, Read More...
Probiotics love your guts
We hear about them everywhere — how they clear up everything from a bloated gut to a depressed mind. How they boost the immune system and improve skin health. How they delay allergies in children and prevent urinary tract infections in women. The list is truly impressive. But what are Read More...
Is California’s five-year-long intensive drought finally over?
Storm after storm has pummeled California over the past few weeks as a series of so-called atmospheric rivers has come ashore. Given the massive amounts of rain and snow that have fallen, people want to know if California’s five-year-long intensive drought is finally over. The answer, of Read More...
This Swedish billboard coughs when a smoker walks by
Will it help people to quit smoking? That remains to be seen, but it is surely a creative way to remind people of their new year’s resolution to quit. The ad uses a TV screen and a smoke detector to perform its advertising trick. At first, it looks like a regular photograph on a billboard, but Read More...
Research: Unborn babies hear very well what you’re saying
Watch your language! New research shows that babies are developing language recognition abilities while still in the womb much earlier than previously thought. The experiment studied 29 Korean-born Dutch speakers. All 29 subjects were adopted by Dutch parents at ages spanning 6 to 17 months. These Read More...
As Trump enters office, China claims Paris climate deal leadership
After all, it’s the country of yin and jang. So, it makes sense that China begins profiling itself as the leader in the fight against global warming at the very moment that Donald Trump takes office. In an address to the United Nations in Geneva president Xi Jinping said that the Paris climate Read More...
Here’s something Democrats and Republicans agree on: Solar energy
Today most Democrats and Republicans find themselves further apart than ever. But here’s a happy thought: Regardless their political affiliation Americans agree on the need for renewable solar energy in the same way. The rooftops of 1.5 million Americans in the top-20 solar states were analyzed Read More...
10 minutes of mindfulness practice a day changes the way you react to everything
Meditation and mindfulness are conquering the workplace and helping more and more people navigating the challenges of modern business. The power of this trend becomes very clear when business consultants are advocating mindfulness as a key business strategy in a publication like Harvard Business Read More...