Search
Total number of posts: 23754
Your stomach bacteria determines which diet is best for weight reduction
New research enables "tailored" diet advice -- based on our personal gut microbiome -- for persons who want to lose weight and reduce the risk of disease. Systems biologists at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time successfully identified in detail how some of our most common Read More...
Western bombs won’t defeat Isis. Only a wider peace deal can draw its poison
There is no disaster in the Arab and Muslim world, it seems, for which the west’s answer is not to drop bombs on it. As the refugee crisis in Europe has driven home the horror of Syria’s civil war, that has been exactly the response of the leaders of Britain and France. David Cameron Read More...
Solar energy is poised for yet another record year
The U.S. solar industry is on course for a new growth record in 2015, according to a new report that finds that solar photovoltaic installations now exceed 20 gigawatts in capacity and could surpass an unprecedented 7 gigawatts this year alone across all segments. A gigawatt is equivalent to 1 Read More...
People love renewable energy, so why don't politicians get it?
Robin Hood: one of Britain’s best-loved folk heroes. He speaks to our national love of subverting the rules. Fighting against institutional injustice, he protected the most vulnerable from the predatory practices of a corrupt establishment. Nottingham city council’s new not-for-profit energy Read More...
Climate benefits from electric car equals $425, study says
A new study places a dollar-based price tag on the environmental benefits of electric vehicles in terms of avoided greenhouse gas pollution, and the answer may surprise both clean-car enthusiasts and skeptics. In the western United States, where electricity is generated from a relatively clean mix Read More...
Cities made of salt may hold the key to sustainable urban planning
As climate change wreaks havoc on our eco-system, many drought-prone regions have been left wondering how to deal with issues like urban planning and global desertification. The latter is an increasingly dire issue that has caused those in the architecture community to look for innovative Read More...
When the Players call the Fouls
Does self-refereeing work in sports? It does in Ultimate Frisbee, where the players call their own game. “The authority of a man with a whistle disempowers the players.” In the searing heat of the Dubai high noon, the Dutch team is playing against the Philippines in the last pool-play match of Read More...
A Better Science of Happiness
Happiness studies can point the way to ever-higher levels of well-being and inspire politicians to design wiser policies. We visit two pioneering researchers in Spain. Carmelo Vázquez receives his apologetic foreign visitor with open arms and a broad smile. He’s not one to get grumpy just Read More...
Freedom Warrior
Rickard Falkvinge is in love with the Internet and will do anything he can to protect it. And we should be doing the same. Because “the Internet was built to connect people, and that creates the most beautiful opportunities.” No other ship of war ever knew as ignoble an end as the Vasa, and yet Read More...
Bacteria for Life
Bacteria cause decay and disease, but they’re also the key to a long and healthy life. A fierce wind is blowing over the wide-open fields of Midwoud, a village of farmers and agrarians an hour’s drive north of Amsterdam. Midwoud is home to organic farm De Anna Hoeve, where the Blokker family Read More...