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Chronic inflammation linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s
While it is widely shown that possessing the ApoE4 gene is the major genetic risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), not all ApoE4 carriers develop AD. For the first time, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that ApoE4 linked with chronic inflammation Read More...
This soda company is going out to sea to clean up plastic waste
Sodastream has always stood out as a company. Not only does their own product avoid or reduce the use of single-use plastics, but they’ve publicly shamed the competition for their waste. Now the company has taken another step in this direction, sailing out into the open ocean to collect trash Read More...
How sunshine helps kill the germs in your home
Researchers in Oregon set up a study of dusty, dollhouse-size rooms to compare what happens in rooms exposed to daylight through regular glass and rooms kept in the dark. What they found was that the rooms exposed to daylight had fewer germs. In fact, the study showed that the lit rooms had about Read More...
Wind farms could be installed off the coast of California in just a few years
In the past week, California took major steps to enable companies to lease waters off the coast for wind projects. If all goes as the state’s regulators and utilities expect, floating windmills could begin producing power within six years. This is especially big news for the state as it attempts Read More...
Designers created a shipping container that mimics clouds to create clean water
In 2016, the competition asked designers to build a device that could extract at least 2,000 liters of water a day from the atmosphere, use clean energy, and cost no more than 2¢ a liter. From the competition came a shipping container that can use clean energy to extract clean waters out of thin Read More...
Forget the car: Here’s why you should start taking more walks
The simple act of walking can do wonders for your body and mind. From strengthening bones and shedding pounds to boosting your mood and improving your sleep, here are 10 eye-opening reasons to start walking Read More...
Google’s new long game: 100 percent clean energy all the time
Our time to move away from dirty energy to green sources is limited. Federal governments can’t be relied upon to push the conversion–especially not the one in the U.S., which is actively working against large-scale adoption of green Read More...
Hits and misses: How neuroscience can boost your creativity
The interesting part about how the brain works is that it loves novelty. And so if you present something over and over—the same thing—to the brain it quickly starts showing a smaller Read More...
China is adding a London-sized electric bus fleet every five weeks
Every five weeks, 9,500 brand new electric buses take to the roads in China. That’s the equivalent of the entire London bus fleet, says a report by Bloomberg New Energy Read More...
'We will not do hybrids:' Rolls-Royce has a plan to go straight to electric
Hoping to buy a Rolls-Royce hybrid at some point? It’s not going to happen. According to the BMW-owned company’s CEO, Torsten Müller-Otvös, Rolls-Royce will move straight to electric and will do so within the next 10 Read More...