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How to reset your diet
Vacations often go hand in hand with indulging, but it can be hard to abstain from doing the same when you return from a trip. Bad habits though can turn into bad diet, and before you know it you could be packing on unwanted weight. Here are 10 ways to reset your diet to get your eating habits back Read More...
New desalination tech could help quench global thirst
The world is on the verge of a water crisis. Rainfall shifts caused by climate change plus the escalating water demands of a growing world population threaten society’s ability to meet its mounting needs. By 2025, the United Nations predicts, 2.4 billion people will live in regions of intense Read More...
Taking on Tesla: China's WM Motor sees mass market electric cars
It remains more promise than product, but the electric vehicle (EV) sector is drawing more talent from mainstream automakers which are reluctant to go full tilt at the new technology. Making the jump can mean better pay and pioneering opportunities. One Chinese-backed start-up with around 900 Read More...
Olympics chefs are cooking extra food for Rio's poor
A group of international chefs has launched an effort to tackle the widespread hunger problem in Rio de Janeiro by cooking surplus food donated from the Olympic Village and serving it to impoverished residents. The 31st Olympic Games in the Brazilian city have faced major criticism as the country Read More...
HullCoins well spent? City's 'Bitcoin for volunteers' offers a new way to pay
Once upon a time, English teachers who couldn’t think of anything else to do with their classes always had “the life story of a penny” to fall back on. Roald Dahl remembers having to do it once for “prep”. In his version, a lump of copper is excavated from a South American mine, shipped Read More...
Growing number of firms back electric fleet transition
Go Ultra Low Company announces over 60 organisations have now committed make at least five per cent of their fleets electric by 2020 Transport for London (TfL) and the University of Cambridge are among 65 public and private sector organisations that have pledged to promote the adoption of electric Read More...
Audi has come up with a suspension system that turns rough roads into electricity
Engineers at Audi have created a prototype shock absorber that would give you a new appreciation for bumpy roads. Dubbed the ‘eROT,’ this shock absorber generates kinetic energy generated by the movement of the car’s suspension while making the ride much smoother. With each little movement, Read More...
The plan that will make use of Alberta's abandoned oil wells
The continuously falling price of oil has left thousands of oil wells abandoned in Alberta, but a new proposal may have found a way to make use of those wells again. The Living Energy Project wants to use the waste heat produced from the idle facilities to allow crops to grow, even in Canada’s Read More...
Elon Musk wants to make your roof entirely out of solar panels
Instead of installing solar panels on top of roofs, why don’t we just construct rooftops made out of solar panels? During SolarCity’s latest earnings call, Elon Musk unveiled that his company is developing a “solar roof” that would utilize every inch of space to produce energy for the home Read More...
Overpopulation? Fewer women are having babies than ever before
Overpopulation is perceived to be a big threat in many future environmental scenarios. But should we really be concerned about too many people on the planet? Advance countries, like Italy and Japan, are dealing with declining populations. That would also be the case in Germany were it not for net Read More...