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Campaign launched in Italy to preserve forests that produce world's most expensive truffle
A campaign has been launched in Italy to save the forests that produce one of the world’s most prized culinary treasures – the white truffle. The aromatic fungi grow in woods in the northern region of Piedmont and in particular in an area of rolling countryside known as the Read More...
Global trade in African grey parrots banned
Delegates at a global wildlife conference on Sunday voted to ban international trade in African grey parrots, one of the world's most trafficked birds. Prized for their ability to mimic human speech, the birds are a highly sought-after pet, but their numbers have been decimated in recent years by Read More...
Hydrogen cars and electrolysers: the dawn of Australia's hydrogen economy?
The hydrogen economy has been a long time coming. The use of hydrogen as a replacement energy source for oil and gas has been talked about since the early 1970s when the term was first coined by an engineer at General Motors in the US. It still hasn’t really arrived. And doubters remain. They Read More...
Lock-up to library: France reinvents its decrepit prisons
The ad on the French finance ministry website is deadpan and succinct: "For sale: late 19th century prison in the centre of Grasse, 1,277.42 square metres (13,750 square feet). No garage or parking space. Needs renovating." Prospective buyers of the site in southeast France are required to lodge a Read More...
Nasa uses robots inspired by geckos to climb pretty much anything in space
Robots in space have to navigate over uneven surfaces without the support of gravity. In zero gravity, even pushing tape against surfaces is a challenge. Nasa engineers are looking to nature for solutions. They copied the system geckos use to climb smooth surfaces. In this video you can see how Read More...
Saving the world with nonprofits run as startup businesses
Silicon Valley investors are increasingly treating nonprofits as conventional startup companies through accelerators. The number of tech non-profits worldwide is reaching record highs. Nonprofit tech startups differ from conventional charities because software or hardware has to be at the core of Read More...
Birds show aircraft how to avoid mid-air collisions
Birds have always been the inspiration for men when it comes to aviation. The Wright Brothers themselves spent a huge amount of time observing birds before achieving their first flight in 1903. Now researchers have been studying how birds avoid collisions. The birds have a simple rule: They always Read More...
Competition drives the electric car revolution to ever better results
The Paris Auto Show presents capitalism at its best. The fierce competition of the electric car revolution drives innovation. Volkswagen and Renault have been presenting new models that have even longer ranges than the Chevy Bolt that beat the Tesla record just a few weeks Read More...
Crowdfunding helps women to bridge gender gap in investment world
Most investors are men and that’s still a barrier for female entrepreneurs. However, equity crowdfunding is changing that. Equity crowdfunding makes it possible for everyone to invest in startup companies in exchange for equity. The phenomenon is still new in the U.S. In the U.K. equity-based Read More...
Meditation keeps emotional brain in check
Meditation can help tame your emotions even if you're not a mindful person, suggests a new study from Michigan State University. Reporting in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, psychology researchers recorded the brain activity of people looking at disturbing pictures immediately after Read More...