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Training in your sleep leads to better physical performance
What if you could use the hours you sleep at night to train yourself physically? It’s long been known that when you picture yourself performing a sport, the same neurons are fired up as if you were actually playing it. This act strengthens your motor connections between the brain and the body, Read More...
Neuroscience says that listening to this one song reduces anxiety by 65%
Sound therapies have been a popular way of relaxing and restoring one’s health for centuries, and now researchers have found what they say is the most calming song that your nervous system will ever hear. They found that this one song – Weightless – resulted in a 65 percent reduction in Read More...
Audi quits Le Mans to focus on electric car racing
BERLIN Audi will end its involvement in the prestigious Le Mans sports car race next year after almost two decades to focus on racing electric cars, symbolizing a shift in strategy as parent company Volkswagen battles to recover from an emissions scandal. Audi, which is seeking to boost the share Read More...
L.A. could remove 100,000 cars over five years . . . By adding more cars?
A new raft of plans to get 100,000 cars off the roads in the next five years contains one amazing, only-in-L.A. proposal: adding almost 10,000 cars. A new report from the nonprofit Shared-Use Mobility Center envisions, among many other sensible ideas, adding 8,400 cars to the city’s car-share Read More...
Meet the tiny towns taking on climate change
Ugh! Everything is miserable, you might be thinking, plopping down on the couch. Climate change is too big and I’m too tired to deal with it. I’m just going to sit here watch Netflix for eternity. Not so fast, lazypants. Take some inspiration from the tiny communities around the world Read More...
Prince of Wales joins global soil boosting project
The Prince of Wales is joining an Anglo-French government initiative to improve the condition of global soils. Ministers from both governments are meeting the prince to discuss how to improve soil health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farming. Typically the focus of cutting greenhouse Read More...
Sweden is on target to run entirely on renewable energy by 2040
Sweden is on target to run entirely on renewable energy within the next 25 years, a regulatory official has said. Last year, 57 per cent of Sweden's power came from renewables such as hydropower and wind sources, with the remainder coming from nuclear power. The country now plans to tap into its Read More...
Improved water splitting advances renewable energy conversion
Washington State University researchers have found a way to more efficiently create hydrogen from water -- an important key in making renewable energy production and storage viable. The researchers, led by professors Yuehe Lin and Scott Beckman in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Read More...
Climate-resilient organic cotton stages a comeback
On the outskirts of Raichur, once known as Karnataka’s cotton city, Ramesh Rangappa proudly shows off his recently planted acre of organic cotton. “It’s rain-fed and we haven’t added any chemical fertiliser,” he says. Although there hasn’t been any rain in recent Read More...
Dutch students use hemp and flex fibers to build ‘biobridge’ for foot traffic
The clean sustainable economy requires more than the use of renewable energy. The building industry is very dependent on fossil resources as well. That’s why a technical university experimented with building bridge using only biocomposite materials. The foot bridge was constructed out of hemp and Read More...