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Sustainable road building: Pig manure can replace asphalt
Roads are made of asphalt, an environmentally polluting petroleum product. Researchers have been looking for a low-cost, sustainable replacement. Now they have found that pig manure is rich in oils very similar to petroleum, at a grade too low to make gasoline but suited for asphalt. The group Read More...
Floating solar produces clean energy and saves water
The Southwest of the U.S. is dealing with a multi-year drought. Many man-made drinking water reservoirs are at all-time lows, and they continue to deplete as vast quantities of water are lost to evaporation. What if the same scorching sun that causes so much of this water loss were harnessed for Read More...
Research: “Deep” readers think and write better, have more empathy
A recent study shows that college students who read, write better. And it matters what you read. The research shows least benefits for the ones who only read web-based content. The real benefits come from what’s called “deep reading”. Deep reading occurs when the language is rich in details, Read More...
How a flex-time program at MIT improved productivity, resilience, and trust
In today’s increasingly competitive hiring market, organizations need to think differently about how to attract new employees and retain existing ones. Unfortunately, many of the obvious solutions require a financial investment: increasing salaries, bonuses, medical benefits, or vacation Read More...
Google buys 12-year output from Norwegian wind power farm
Google has bought the entire 12-year power production from a yet-to-be-built Norwegian wind power farm to supply its European data centers with renewable energy, its developers said on Thursday. Norway's Zephyr and Norsk Vind Energi said the 160-megawatt capacity onshore Tellenes wind power farm Read More...
World Bank commits $1 billion for India's solar-energy program
The World Bank Group signed an agreement with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), consisting of 121 countries led by India, and committed to provide $1 billion in support to Indian solar energy projects. The World Bank-supported projects include solar rooftop technology, infrastructure for Read More...
As nuclear plants shut down, renewable energy could boom
While the safety, cost, and long-term environmental impacts of nuclear energy have been contested for the past half century, there is no debate that nuclear power plants are a significant source of carbon-free electricity. So is this the best time to be shutting them down? It is in California. One Read More...
Man hand-builds awesome amusement park that's inspired by nature
Kids are spending less time outdoors than prison inmates, and it's leading to a whole host of problems like obesity, nature deficit disorder and lower levels of what could be called "ecological literacy". But how do you get screen-addled kids excited to go outdoors? Perhaps we could learn from Read More...
We get more violent when it gets hotter, we need to figure out why
Police departments across the world know that violence spikes in hotter months and is higher in hotter climates. There are several explanations that include the suggestion that people who live in warmer places spend more time outside, and therefore are offered more opportunity for other people to Read More...
Virgin Atlantic finds cheapest way to save fuel is to tell pilots to do so
In an innovative experiment, Virgin Atlantic has used behavioral science to ‘nudge’ its pilots into using less fuel. The experiment shows that significant fuel savings can be achieved with very little investment. The pilots were split into four groups: One which was simply told that fuel use Read More...