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Research: Biochar reduces air pollution, saves health costs
Producing “biochar” is a 2,000 year-old practice that converts agricultural waste into a soil enhancer that can hold carbon, boost food security, and increase soil biodiversity, and discourage deforestation. The process creates a fine-grained, highly porous charcoal that helps soils retain Read More...
Alphabet works on energy storage system based on salt
Alphabet, Google’s mother company, works on a new storage system for renewable energy that would be better than lithium-ion batteries that require rare earth metals and is thus not entirely sustainable. The Alphabet system involves vats of salt and antifreeze. It can be located almost anywhere, Read More...
Eating less sugar increases your happiness
OK, this headline doesn’t exactly say what the outcome of this new research is. We already knew that eating too much sugar linked to obesity, diabetes, and other degenerative diseases. Now, a new study shows that people eating 67 grams of sugar or more have a 23 percent higher chance to be Read More...
Why more and more high schools are acting like startups
A railroad bridge had become a rusty eyesore in Marion, Iowa, and a local firm was on the hunt for a new design. So Martin Gardner Architecture turned to high school students. A group of budding architects from Iowa BIG, which brings in students from seven Cedar Rapids area high schools to spend Read More...
Will you need a driving license in the age of self-driving cars?
Driverless vehicles may seem unfamiliar now, but over the coming years you'll start to encounter - or even use them - on a daily basis. Will it mean the end of the driving licence and changes to the rules of the road? It's not uncommon to see a squat white droid trundling along the streets of Read More...
This city’s subway system will soon run mostly on renewable energy
This city’s sleek, European-made subway cars, riding on rubber tires that barely make a noise on the steel rails, carry 2.4 million passengers a day during the week in a metro system considered South America’s most modern. Now it has another distinction: It is about to become one of the Read More...
How electric vehicles could take a bite out of the oil market
When will cars powered by gas-guzzling internal combustion engines become obsolete? Not as soon as it seems, even with the latest automotive news out of Europe. First, Volvo announced it would begin to phase out the production of cars that run solely on gasoline or diesel by 2019 by only releasing Read More...
Sensible refugee policy: migrants get jobs, Sweden gets skilled workers
The fear of job-stealing migrants still dominates political debates. Meanwhile, Sweden has adopted a sensible policy—that is not without self-interest. New arrivals are actively encouraged into work, put on a fast-track to employment, matched with jobs in sectors where Sweden needs workers, and Read More...
Study: Green tea repairs the brain from inflammation caused by Western diet
The modern western high-sugar diet causes inflammation. And inflammation is the beginning of many degenerative diseases—from cancer to dementia. Research with mice shows that green tea repairs some of the brain damage caused by too much Read More...
Shell sees the end of oil and CEO’s next car will be electric
The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell last week delivered the clearest indication yet that the electric car revolution is hastening the decline of global oil demand and that clean renewable energy is taking over. “When that will be is not certain. But that it will happen, we are certain,” he told Read More...