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Chile’s energy transformation is powered by wind, sun and volcanoes
It doesn’t hurt that Chile’s geography offers an embarrassment of riches for renewable energy. A constellation of solar fields built in the Atacama Desert in the north, one of the driest and sunniest places on Earth, has made Chile one of the most promising markets for producers of Read More...
Aboriginal meditation is being used to heal minds in the modern world
From the tiny community of Nauiyu, south of Darwin, Miriam Rose Baumann is preparing to meet her next group of interstate visitors. "It's not a tour where you have to pack your bags and get ready to jump on a bus that's going to be leaving at 6:00am in the morning, to take you to places and be Read More...
This simple box serves up running water and clean electricity in remote locations
Off Grid Box, an Italian startup, was founded to bring clean water and renewable energy to the millions of the people in the world who still live without. The box itself is a simple container, measuring six by six by six feet. With solar panels on top and water treatment inside, it can help remote Read More...
Solving the waste problem: Materials that self-destruct if they're not "fed"
Wouldn’t it be great if things you don’t longer use, would disappear and decompose automatically? Nature does not produce garbage dumps. Instead, biological cells are constantly synthesizing new molecules from recycled ones. Now researchers are mimicking this natural process and developing Read More...
Downtown parking solution: free bus passes
Columbus, Ohio is trying to solve a parking problem in its downtown area with an innovative solution. Instead of building 4,000 new parking spaces, property owners in the city plan to offer free bus passes to more than 40,000 people who work in the Read More...
Probiotics and a healthy gut can help fight multiple sclerosis
The importance of maintaining a healthy gut cannot be overstressed as new research keeps emerging. Now the Mayo Clinic has uncovered a gut microbe that has the potential to treat autoimmune diseases, including multiple Read More...
India defies somber climate projections and has begun leaving the coal age
In climate projections India, already the third-largest carbon emitter in the world, is going to deploy coal-fired power plants on a massive scale as the country needs more electricity to feed a fast growing economy. However, the reality on the ground is different. In the last two years, coal Read More...
There’s evidence that you can do math in your sleep
Researchers in Paris have found that brains are capable of both learning and suppressing information during different phases of sleep. And Israeli researchers have discovered that it’s possible for us to learn different patterns of smells while Read More...
Preparing for longevity: We don’t need to become frail as we age
Frailty, often assumed to be an inevitable part of aging, may be more preventable than most think. Age-related frailty may be a treatable and preventable health problem, just like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, highlights a review in Frontiers in Physiology. “Societies are not Read More...
America’s wind energy industry is booming
The wind energy industry reached an important milestone in 2016 when it passed the generating capacity of hydroelectric power for the first time to become the nation’s top renewable generating source. Wind energy’s growth — at least in the next few years — is showing few Read More...