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Running adds years to your life regardless of distance or speed
Running makes you live longer according to a new study published in the journal American College of Cardiology. The interesting part of the findings is that speed and distance don’t impact the years running adds to your life. The study followed 5,500 adults for 15 years and discovered those who Read More...
Turn the television off, and your life on
Many of us are addicts, turning the television on in the evening out of boredom or to seek distraction from everyday life. Then, hours later, we find we are still bored. It’s like yawning: your body is actually screaming for oxygen, and you’re better off going for a run than crawling into bed. Read More...
Trees save lives and billions in health care expenses
We know that trees eat greenhouse gases, and spit out breathable oxygen, but how much air pollution do they ingest, and how do humans benefit? The U.S Forest Service just released the first broad-scale estimate of how big an impact trees have on U.S. citizens and the economy. The study, published Read More...
Barge designed to clean waterways
Many rivers, sees and oceans are terribly polluted. John Kellett of Clearwater Mills has come up with a solar-powered trash-collecting barge that is essentially a giant conveyor belt that scoops up trash from waterways, and then deposits it in an onboard dumpster. The new trash collecting Read More...
Doctors teach the body to cure cancer
The main cancer treatments have serious negative side-effects on the healthy parts of the body. Radiation and chemotherapy damage healthy cells, and surgery often leaves cancer in the body, allowing it to return. But increasingly doctors are using the body’s own immune system as an effective Read More...
Protection of wild life stops child labor and slavery
Environmentalists often talk about the tragic loss of animal and plant life because of the destruction of nature. A new study of UC Berkeley ecologists, led by Justin Brashares and published in Science, shows that the damage even leads to human tragedy. The study discovered a direct link between Read More...
Six seconds exercise lowers blood pressure and improves fitness
A new study conducted by researchers at Abertay University has found that short six-second intervals of high intensity exercise can lower blood pressure and improve overall fitness in elderly. The study, which only looked at pensioners, had 12 participants go all-out on an exercise bike for six Read More...
Cinnamon holds promise for Parkinson’s disease
Cinnamon can stop the progression of Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms in mice, and according to researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, there is good reason to believe that this potent spice could also be beneficial to patients. Parkinson’s disease is marked by the death of Read More...
Revolutionary solar panels mimic moth eyes
Moth eyes are incredibly efficient—reflecting almost no light, so they don’t draw attention from predators. Researchers from Switzerland are taking the absorption properties found in moth eyes and applying them to solar panel design. The new solar design covers the panels in a thin layer of Read More...
California could be powered by 100% clean energy by 2050
There are plenty ambitious renewable energy projects and studies. But this new one by Stanford University is particularly interesting as it's about the 8th largest economy in the world—California—becoming totally clean energy based 35 years from now. The study, published in Energy, concludes Read More...