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Five ways to improve your mental health
The mental health charity Mind says every year one in four people in the UK will experience mental health problems, which could be anything from depression, panic attacks, eating disorders, OCD, and everything in between. The charity also says people with mental illnesses are more likely to suffer Read More...
Mindfulness program may ease chronic low back pain
An eight-week group program focused on mindfulness-based stress reduction may help with short-term function and long-term pain for people with chronic low back problems, according to a new study. “Most people would think mindfulness meditation would help stress,” said lead author Dr. Natalia Read More...
Bill Gates: World will deliver 'clean energy breakthrough' within 15 years
Tech billionaire predicts innovation will deliver the clean energy the world desperately needs, but only if young people, businesses, and governments step up to the plate Bill Gates has predicted researchers will "discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world" Read More...
Fintech could be bigger than ATMs, PayPal, and Bitcoin combined
Are you ready for the brave new world of financial services? We’re about to enter the most profound era of change for financial services companies since the 1970s brought us index mutual funds, discount brokers and ATMs. No firm is immune from the coming disruption and every company must have Read More...
Natural soil treatment could help trees resist deadly disease
Chalara ash dieback could kill millions of ash trees in the U.K. Experts fear it could have the same devastating impact on the country’s woodlands and landscape as Dutch elm disease in the 1970s. But now, a study by tree and shrub care company Bartlett Tree Experts found that while a third of the Read More...
How NASA accidentally found a way to make buildings safer during earthquakes
NASA technologists are typically focused on making it safe for humans to explore outer space. Now the space agency says it’s found a way to make earthquakes safer for people on the ground. NASA developed a new stabilizing technology, known as the LOX Damper, in 2013 after working on a violently Read More...
The U.S. built more solar energy systems than natural gas plants last year
Case in point: For the first time ever, more new solar energy systems were installed in the U.S. last year than new natural gas plants built. According to a new report from the Solar Energy Industry Association and analysts at GTM Research, solar systems supplied 29.5% of the new energy sources Read More...
Al Gore turns optimistic about stopping climate change
Al Gore scared many with his Inconvenient Truth documentary, identifying the dire consequences of global warming, thus mobilizing lots of action groups and businesses to take the issue more seriously. Now, his latest TED talk has a much more upbeat note. Yes, there are many challenges, still, but Read More...
Coffee can help protect from liver disease
Coffee can do more than give you that extra energy boost in the morning. In a study analyzing data from 430,000 participants, the study found that “increasing coffee consumptions by two cups per day was associated with a statistically significant reduction in the risk of cirrhosis” and that the Read More...
The neuroscience behind Buddhist enlightenment
To many non-believers, Buddhism is the "good" kind of religion, one that doesn't start wars and has powerful things to say on the mindfulness and mental self control we all seek by one method or another. RedOrbit spoke to Dr. Rick Hanson, psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Read More...