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Israeli firm signs deals with India, Vietnam to provide water out of thin air
The Israeli company Water Gen, which developed technology that produces clean water out of thin air, has signed deals to share its innovation with India and Vietnam. The agreements were reached with India’s second largest solar engineering company to provide water to remote Read More...
How to design our neighborhoods for happiness
Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud. But if Freud were around today, he might say “design is destiny”—especially after taking a stroll through most modern cities. The way we design our communities plays a huge role in how we experience our lives. Neighborhoods built without Read More...
A couple in India spent a quarter-century nurturing a rainforest back to life
While many places on the planet are witnessing distressing levels of rainforest destruction, one couple in India has nursed a rainforest back to life. For the last 25 years, the couple has been collecting land farmers no longer wanted and restoring vegetation. Slowly but surely, insects and animals Read More...
This electric-plane startup could clean up the aviation industry
The aviation industry is in search of cleaner ways to fly, and it seems they are finding one in hybrid electric-aircraft startup Zunum Aero. The startup has received an investment from Boeing and JetBlue that will help them build a quiet, environmentally friendly aircraft. Zunum’s proposed Read More...
Dog-sharing is the new hot thing in the sharing economy
The latest trend in the sharing economy is dog-sharing. No, dogs aren’t being passed around for free, but there is a flurry of startups offering dog-walking, dog-sitting, and other dog-related services. These apps give people the opportunity to become pet owners despite the challenges of modern Read More...
Reviving the Mammoth Steppe and the Wooly Mammoth to reverse global warming
In Eastern Siberia, a father and his son are nurturing an extensive grassland known as the Mammoth Steppe back to life, including the Woolly Mammoths that used to roam it. Their quest to bring back an extinct species is undoubtedly controversial, but their reason for doing so isn’t. With the help Read More...
Practicing gratitude to boost your well-being
Gratitude may seem like a practice you do for others, but it actually has enormous benefits for your own well-being. Studies show expressing more gratitude can help boost happiness and reduce the negative effects of depression. Here’s how you can upgrade your gratitude Read More...
Female-friendly Uber alternative Safr lauches with mission to empower women
Positioning itself as a female-friendly alternative to Uber, Safr, a new Boston ride-hailing service that launched last month, faces an uphill climb to take market share from an industry leader. But with Uber’s seemingly unending stream of bad news this year, and a new report revealing that Read More...
Is neuroscience rediscovering the soul?
The idea that neuroscience is rediscovering the soul is, to most scientists and philosophers, nothing short of outrageous. Of course it is not. But the widespread, adverse, knee-jerk attitude presupposes the old-fashioned definition of the soul — the ethereal, immaterial entity that somehow Read More...
Research: Deep sleep may act as fountain of youth in old age
As we grow old, our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness, bathroom trips and other nuisances as we lose our ability to generate the deep, restorative slumber we enjoyed in youth. But that does not mean the elderly need less sleep, according to Read More...