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Listening to music during surgery leads to better recovery and less pain
Some hospitals are already encouraging their patients to listen to music during and after surgery. It would be even better if all hospitals start doing that. Surgery patients who listen to music, either before, during or after surgery, have less pain and stress and use less pain medication. This Read More...
This device helps you to keep your focus by switching off phone notifications when you're concentrating
Constant distractions on our mobile devices are keeping us from focussing nowadays. Smart people are working on ways to keep these distractions at bay. A new device called Phylter is one of those ways. The device switches off sounds and notifications on your phone automatically, when it finds Read More...
Brewery hopes to tap creative minds to deal with drought
It's a new approach to an old-school solution for a state gripped by severe drought: Place a brick in a toilet tank to conserve water with every flush. The new version, dubbed Drop-A-Brick 2.0, will be unveiled Thursday as part of an unusual effort to stimulate water-saving inventions through Read More...
Farmers are dialing for seeds to make money in Mali
“What if you could buy fertilizer and seeds the same way that you buy prepaid minutes for your phone?” thought microfinance specialist Anushka Ratnayake. At the time, Ratnayake was working in Kenya for an organization that provided loans to farmers. To test her mobile layaway model, Read More...
New technology could reduce wind energy costs
Engineers from the University of Sheffield have developed a novel technique to predict when bearings inside wind turbines will fail which could make wind energy cheaper. The method, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A and developed by Mechanical Engineering research student Read More...
Electric cars are only as green as their power grid
President Barack Obama has just announced America's "first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution from power plants." His "Clean Power Plan" calls for a 32 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. Why? America's electricity is still mostly coal-fired, with Read More...
Ford survey finds 90% of electric car owners plan to stick with electric drive
A new survey of plug-in hybrid and electric car drivers by Ford Motor Company finds that 90% of the 10,000 people surveyed like driving a plug-in hybrid or electric car and have no plans to go back to driving a gasoline-powered car in the future. Most of those who participated in the survey said Read More...
Meet Australia's Immortus Solar Car
The Immortus solar car is a bespoke electric sports car from EVX Ventures, a partnership between the electric vehicle research group at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, and experienced local engineers who have designed and produced award-winning solar racing cars. The EVX Read More...
The grow-your-own-food revolution is in full swing
From back garden vegetable patches and allotments with decades-long waiting lists to urban rooftop "farms" and vertical kitchen gardens, the grow-your-own revolution is in full swing. Anyone who has tilled the soil will appreciate the diligence and ingenuity of the head gardeners of yore who turned Read More...
Full speed ahead: How the driverless car could transform cities
Just like Ford’s Model T, which debuted in 1908, today’s automobiles have four tires, a steering wheel, and seats. Henry Ford would have little trouble behind the wheel, but he would be completely baffled by the technology under the hood. Cars today are, in many ways, high-performance Read More...