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Newly discovered metabolic mechanism could be an off-switch for inflammation
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have uncovered a new metabolic process involved in the immune system's inflammatory processes. The discovery suggests manipulating this mechanism could essentially "switch off" inflammation, which the researchers hope could lead to the development of entirely Read More...
How floating solar panels are helping the Maldives ditch diesel fuel
Tropical islands might boast pure natural scenery, but their energy sources are often anything but pure. Many power-hungry resorts in the Maldives rely on diesel, a notorious pollutant, for their energy needs. Swimsol, a solar power company based in Austria, is working to change that. Read More...
What is mindfulness and how does it work?
It is readily arguable that the single most significant development in mental health practice since the turn of the millennium has been the widespread emergence of mindfulness-based approaches. They are popping up everywhere you look. Type “mindfulness” into Google and you get 27 million Read More...
Africa’s new free trade area could have a massive impact on poverty
Some studies have shown that by creating a pan-African market, intra-Africa trade could increase by about 52 percent by 2022. With that in mind, African leaders have signed a framework to establish the African Continental Free Trade Area, the largest free trade agreement since the creation of the Read More...
Shell has announced a plan to wean the world off fossil fuels
Although it may seem hard to believe, oil giant Shell has laid out a plan for moving away from its own product. The plan would shift people away from oil and towards hydrogen and electric transportation in order to keep global warming under the 2 degree limit that most scientists think is the Read More...
Why Europe just banned two cosmetic ingredients you’ve probably never heard of
The European Chemicals Agency has announced a ban on the use of two chemicals widely found in cosmetics intended to be washed off after use. Although you’ve probably never heard of the chemicals cyclomethicone (D4) and cyclopentasiloxane (D5), they will be banned from use in cosmetics as of 2020 Read More...
Facebook users can take back their privacy with this Firefox browser extension
In response to Facebook’s latest privacy troubles, Mozilla Firefox has created a browser extension that “isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity.” What this means is that when you’re logged onto Facebook on Firefox, the platform will be separated in a special Read More...
Why being forgetful isn’t necessarily a bad thing
Traditional research on memory has focused on the advantages of remembering everything, but looking through years of recent memory data, researchers found that the neurobiology of forgetting can be just as important to our decision-making as what our minds choose to remember. When you forget, you Read More...
Your first thought is rarely your best thought: Lessons on thinking
The best advice I’ve ever gotten about thinking came from a private-company CEO who has a thirty-year track record that’s up there with Warren Buffett’s. One day he said to me, “Shane, most people don’t actually think. They just take their first thought and Read More...
Fog harps could wrest water from the clouds
Inspired by coastal redwoods, scientists have created a new kind of fog harvesting design that appears to increase the capacity of clean water collection by Read More...