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A new discovery could be a death blow to traditional lithium-ion batteries
Department of Energy scientists said last week that they had discovered the fastest magnesium-ion solid-state conductor. It could be a final blow to the lithium-ion batteries, which have been used for Read More...
‘All it would take to stop Brexit is a couple of dozen brave Tories’
Richard Thaler was awarded the Nobel prize for economics in October, for work that has “built a bridge between the economic and psychological analyses of individual decision-making”. While traditional economics assumes that people are rational Read More...
Can immunotherapy effectively fight cancer?
When immunotherapy works, it really works. But not for every kind of cancer, and not for every patient—not even, it turns out, for the majority of them. However, what research is now telling us is that the immune system can be trained to attack cancer. The problem is that the prices, as well as Read More...
Clean energy could save women hours of time each day in rural India
In rural India, women spend more than a quarter of their waking hours on cooking-related tasks. Much of this time is not actually spent on the cooking process itself, however, but on gathering free biomass fuels such as firewood, dung cakes, and agricultural waste. By utilizing clean energy Read More...
Dubai is a having a transportation revolution
Considering how advanced our technology is becoming, isn’t it odd we still spend so much time sitting in traffic. Dubai thinks so, which is why its testing out new transportation methods that are like nothing we’ve seen before. See here Dubai’s big plans to revolutionize the way we Read More...
Study: Cuddling a baby could change its genetics for years
A new study says that the amount of comforting contact a young infant gets can actually affect the epigenome—the biochemical changes that influence gene expression in the body. These changes in gene expression can work to boost the genes that back the immune system as well as the metabolic Read More...
Why you need to focus more on your breathing
Breathing is the most basic thing we do each day. And yet, maybe because it’s so basic, it’s so easy to ignore. But centuries of wisdom, as well as the latest science, tells us that controlling your breathing helps you calm your brain. Check out all the other benefits that controlled breathing Read More...
How Elon Musk built the world’s biggest battery in 60 days
When an apocalyptic storm hit South Australia in September of 2016, the regional electricity grid failed and left 1.7 million residents in the darkness. Then the Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull tried to blame the state’s recent turn toward renewable energy, prompting Elon Musk to make Read More...
This company is using solar panels to harvest water directly from the air
A company has figured out how to harvest drinking water out of thin air, using a combination of materials science, solar power, and predictive data. If you’re not following how that it’s possible, don’t worry; you’d likely have to be an expert in materials science and fluid dynamics to Read More...
How some Tesla owners are mining bitcoins with free power from charging stations
For all the pros that Bitcoins have, there’s one con that’s particular bad: The fact that Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than all of Ireland. That’s because bitcoin mining utilizes specialized computers to churn through extremely power-intensive computing processes. In order to find Read More...