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How your sense of smell supports your digestion and your health
You may be on the healthy Mediterranean diet and still not enjoy all the health benefits. That is because it is not only about what you eat, but also about how you eat. Your digestion determines whether your body absorbs all the good stuff you put in your mouth. Our nervous system has a major Read More...
How San Francisco is leading the way out of bottled water culture
Americans drink enough bottled water each week to circle the globe two times around. That was one of the many alarming facts that motivated politicians in San Francisco to pursue a progressive environmental regulation no other major US city had dared – a ban on bottled water. The liberal Read More...
Street lamps could soon also charge electric cars in London
The street lamps in Hounslow, London, have an additional electricity port for electric car drivers who want to charge their vehicle Ubitricity, a German company focused on providing clean energy, converted street lamps in Hounslow, London, to have LEDs in them and included a new charging port for Read More...
Can microbes encourage altruism?
Parasites are among nature’s most skillful manipulators — and one of their specialties is making hosts perform reckless acts of irrational self-harm. There’s Toxoplasma gondii, which drives mice to seek out cats eager to eat them, and the liver fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum, Read More...
Elon Musk about basic income: 'I don't think we're going to have a choice'
Across their three presidential debates last year, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump uttered the word “jobs” 86 times – but the word “automation” never came up. And by all accounts, nothing is going to transform the American labor market more dramatically, and likely Read More...
In Madagascar, a waterless toilet may provide a global solution
If there is one technology that symbolizes the global water sector’s future struggles, it would be the toilet. While there have been plenty of advances in farming irrigation and water purification, toilets are still stuck in a Victorian-era time warp. Granted, sanitation is improving across Read More...
Future Energy: LA crystals turn cars into energy source
Los Angeles is the car capital of the world with traffic a part of daily conversation as people estimate how many hours they will be stuck in a jam on their commute home each night. But what if the cars they spend so much time in could be used to generate electricity using crystals embedded in Read More...
Cryptocurrencies can make money work for all
Cryptocurrencies can make money work for all—not just for a few. You can read here why you need to get ready for digital currencies. This story also explains why bitcoin should make sense to Read More...
Artificial algae could help save our oceans
Artificial algae reefs made of highly elastic rubber material can strengthen corals’ foundation by growing over and between gaps in coral reefs, essentially gluing sections of coral together. They also provide a surface for baby corals to settle, and serve as food for marine life. Artificial Read More...
A team of students have developed the most efficient solar car ever
While electric and hydrogen cars have had massive technological breakthroughs in the last few years, there has been little news about the solar car. That was until a team of students at Eindhoven University of Technology unveiled an electric car that seats five and is completely powered by the sun. Read More...