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Walking 25 minutes daily can add seven years to your life
Here’s another incentive for you to walk your dog or walk to the gym rather than drive. Researchers from the Saarland University in Germany presented a new study explaining how high death rates from heart disease due to the changes in the lifestyles and diets of people can be reversed with Read More...
Research shows that these 7 hobbies will make you smarter
For a long time, it was believed that people are born with a given level of intelligence, and the best we could do in life was to live up to our potential. Scientists have now proven that we can actually increase our potential and enjoy ourselves in the process. We now know that by learning new Read More...
Google and Tesla might be interested in creating a permanent Burning Man
If you’ve ever seen photos of the Burning Man event, you will have realized that this is an event unlike any other. It seems to encourage all kinds of self-expression and according to the event’s description, it’s been called “an experiment in community, art, radical Read More...
Study: Eating raw vegetables prevents cancer
Researchers from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo have discovered that eating raw cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage has been found to decrease the risk of developing bladder cancer by 40 percent. What’s astonishing about this study is that the participants ate Read More...
Wireless charging for electric BMWs by 2017?
Are BMW’s electric vehicle (EV) offerings going to be set up for wireless charging in only the next few years? An interesting question — it certainly does seem that the technology is developing at a fairly rapid rate, so maybe widespread use is something that we can expect soon. What Read More...
Samsung introduces electric bike with 100-kilometer battery
A new e-bike battery pack that can power an e-bike for 100 kilometers on a single charge was recently unveiled by Samsung SDI — with the new offering being showcased on August 26th at Eurobike 2015 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The new offering is a 500 watt-hour (Wh) battery pack, designed to Read More...
Swans help create smoother camera drone videos
The next time you see a graceful, dramatic video shot by a camera drone, you may have a swan to thank for the absence of any jittery footage. Stanford University researchers are developing camera suspension technology inspired by whooping swans, whose heads remain remarkably still even when they're Read More...
Barclays to become first UK high street bank to accept bitcoin
Published: 14:08 EST, 30 August 2015 | Updated: 14:17 EST, 30 August 2015 Barclays will be the first UK high street bank to accept bitcoin later this year, the company has announced. It plans to allow people to make charity donations using the virtual currency by going into partnership Read More...
Tesla's newest car is so good it broke Consumer Reports' rating system
The jury is out. And here's what Consumer Report, a leading source for product reviews in the US, wrote about the Tesla model S P85D: "The Tesla initially scored 103 in the Consumer Reports' Ratings system, which by definition doesn’t go past 100. The car set a new benchmark, so we had to make Read More...
The Solar Sunflower can harness the power of 5,000 suns
Sunflowers have been reborn for the future, and these ones you can’t give your loved one in a bouquet. Engineers in Switzerland has developed a massive solar sunflower, combining both photovoltaic solar power and concentrated solar thermal power in one package with a total efficiency of around 80 Read More...