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Study: Drinking small amounts of alcohol daily helps clear brain waste
While excessive alcohol consumption is never good for your health, a new study found that a couple of alcoholic drinks per day can actually reduce brain inflammation. The researchers also found that “low” alcohol consumption can increase the function of the glymphatic system, which is Read More...
Why novels are the best business books you can read
Business-minded books may help you get an edge on the competition, but novels can be even more effective. Of course, not every novel offers the same chance to boost your emotional intelligence, but the ones that emphasise characters’ relationships certainly can. Novels with strong character Read More...
The building materials of the future are old buildings
Every year, more than 530 million tons of construction and demolition waste like timber, concrete, and asphalt end up in landfills in the U.S.–about double the amount of waste picked up by garbage trucks every year from homes, businesses, and institutions. But what if all of the material used in Read More...
How grape compounds can help to treat depression
A new study unravels the mechanism by which compounds found in grapes improve resilience to stress in mice and attenuate the brain changes linked with Read More...
California on path to meet goal of 1.5 million electric cars, but charging stations lag behind
Buoyed by an exceptional sales year in 2017, the state’s electric vehicle market will continue to grow this year and will reach 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2025, an earlier target set by Gov. Jerry Read More...
Norway decides in favor of wild reindeer over energy
Wind energy is great. But so are wild reindeer – and the Norwegian government thinks the same, evidenced when it recently rejected construction of a wind farm over concerns that it could harm the animals in an area that is home to the last remaining viable populations in Read More...
New York's $6 billion plan for offshore wind shows that oil drilling is on the way out
New York is getting serious about offshore wind. Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a plan earlier this month to develop $6 billion of offshore wind projects off the southern coast of Long Island by 2028 and predicted that the industry would bring 5,000 jobs to the state. The plan calls for developing Read More...
The parking garages of today will be the housing units of tomorrow
Transitioning to a future where people share driverless cars instead of owning vehicles means that our infrastructure will also be changing. Structures such as gas-stations and public parking garages will be rendered useless, which is why developers and architects are already designing ways of Read More...
Tesla to create world’s largest ‘virtual power plant’ in Australia
Looks like Tesla isn’t done bolstering Australia’s power grid just yet. After installing a giant battery in South Australia, the company announced it will provide solar panels and Tesla Powerwall batteries to “at least” 50,000 homes in a bid to create the largest-ever “virtual power Read More...
Researchers discover lost Mayan city with the help of “digital deforestation”
The ruins of a gigantic Mayan city have been discovered under the blanket of the Guatemalan jungle. Using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology to see how the landscape would look without trees, the researchers found more than 60,000 previously unknown structures in the area, running the Read More...