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5 ways you can use mindfulness to fix your brain, decrease stress and improve performance
There’s no shortage of advice out there claiming to make you better, but mindfulness meditation is the rare, research-proven technique that boosts your performance by physically altering your brain. Researchers from the University of British Columbia recently pooled data from more than 20 studies Read More...
Just because you can get a medical test doesn't mean you should
When should women get screened for breast cancer? It’s a fraught question. Mammograms can yield false positives or detect lesions that pose no health threat, making patients anxious and exposing them to risks of follow-up tests. But not getting screened may risk missing the chance, however Read More...
Here's how technology is helping to tackle the world's waste crisis
The amount of waste created by humans, the emissions that come with it and the price of disposing it are rising at an alarming, unsustainable rate, but new advanced technology offers an array of solutions to turning waste into something useful. One of such examples is US-based Ener-Core which has Read More...
Mid-life crisis a myth? New study says we get happier with age
There may not be a mid-life crisis after all. A new study claims that we’re happy at 40 than we ever were at 18, adding that the happiness curve rises with age. Previous theories claimed happiness was like a U-shape journey: it started declining from age 20, reaching its lowest point somewhere Read More...
New study shows self-driving cars are safer than human drivers
Autonomous vehicles are safer. At least, that's the conclusion by the first study on the crash rate for self-driving cars, which compared that data to national crash rates. Researchers from Virginia Tech Transportation found that the self-driving cars have a crash rate of 3.2 crashes per million Read More...
Millennials push for clean energy, sustainability and peace
A new poll by USA Today and Rock the Vote showed what the millennials generation want to see in the next US president’s agenda. It turns out, the new generation is serious about clean energy and wants the government to commit to it too. They also demand background checks for gun buyers, the use Read More...
Cultivate what you want by loving what you have
New years are usually about new beginnings, new plans or resolutions. But it can be a lot of pressure to commit to new goals as we tend to think about what we don’t have, what is not working. Instead, take a moment to acknowledge what you do have and what you have accomplished, and develop new Read More...
London, Berlin, Amsterdam: Capitals of the next economy
Whether the European Commission’s Circular Economy Package is ambitious enough is still under debate, but at least it leaves some flexibility for potential partnerships, industry-led and local government-led initiatives to shape the next economy. Some cities are already seizing related Read More...
14 edible plants you can grow indoors
Many of us dream of having our own vegetable patch, but it can be challenging to find the ideal space—and that’s assuming you have a garden at all. If you don’t then you’re in luck, you don’t need a large outdoor plot to grow all your ideal crops, for many edible Read More...
Hobbies make us happier – so ignore the mockery, and enjoy
It’s a bleak Monday in January, and you have spent half the morning trying to come up with plausible excuses to get out of doing any work. But I have some good news: the key to a happy life – and I know you were wondering about that – is, apparently, spending more time on your Read More...