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A new journal wants to publish your research ideas
Do you have a great idea for a study that you want to share with the world? A new journal will gladly publish it. Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) will also publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software—in short, “all outputs of the research cycle." RIO, an Read More...
Google's self-driving cars in Austin have removed humans entirely
Our first glimpse of Google’s driverless cars came in 2012. Since then, Google has confined most of its test-drives of these vehicles to the roads outside its headquarters in Mountain View, California, and recently expanded tests to Austin, Texas (reports of other self-driving car tests by Read More...
Renewable energy is good for your health
Renewable energy projects and energy efficiency measures—particularly those that replace coal-fired power plants—will not only decrease carbon emissions but may also have major health implications worth millions of dollars, according to researchers at Harvard University. Public health Read More...
Climate change will bring greater biodiversity to world seas
Tropical marine animals that currently thrive in warm habitats around the equator will have to spread north and south to avoid extinction as global sea temperatures rise, a study has found. Scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), alongside international partners, modelled Read More...
More students are crowdfunding college tuition
When the desire to go to college exceeds your ability to pay for it, you need to get creative. For a growing number of students, that means asking others for help through crowdfunding. Educational funding is one of the most popular categories on the popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe. So far this Read More...
Dutch designers turn food waste into (fruit) leather
This fruit leather isn't meant to be packed in lunch bags. It's meant to be the lunch bag. Food waste is a very serious issue, and while some of that waste can be reduced before it gets to the point of being tossed, there's still bound to be a certain amount of spoiled fruit and vegetables that Read More...
Could diesel made from air help tackle climate change?
Making diesel out of thin air sounds like something from science fiction. But small companies in Germany and Canada are doing precisely this - capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and finding ways to sell it. German company Sunfire produced its first batches of so-called e-diesel in April. Federal Read More...
How to capture and convert CO2 from a smokestack in a single step
Using a novel catalyst, a single chemical assembly (UiO-66-P-BF2) could capture CO2 and also transform it and hydrogen into formic acid (HCOOH) via a two-step (yellow arrows) reaction (credit: Ye and Johnson/ACS Catalysis) University of Pittsburgh researchers have invented (in computations) a Read More...
Probiotics could help protect against inflammation, obesity
A diet rich in fish oil produces very different gut bacteria from one that's rich in lard, according to a new study that suggests probiotics could be useful in curbing weight gain and inflammation. "We wanted to determine whether gut microbes directly contribute to the metabolic differences Read More...
Melbourne school uses neuroscience to boost grades and improve wellbeing of students
A Melbourne school is using an Australian-first approach based on neuroscience to revolutionise its learning and boost its students' grades. Broadmeadows Primary School in Melbourne's north-west is in the lowest 12th percentile for socio-economic disadvantage. But the school's NAPLAN results are Read More...