Number of words: 535 Transitioning to renewable energy across society will require many changes, including more batteries. Energy storage is crucial for making sure that inconsistent renewable sources, like wind or solar, can stay humming even when the weather isn’t going their way. But batteries have their own problem in the form of the commonly … Read more

Number of words: 1,046 If you want to get rid of unwanted, negative thoughts, try just ripping them up and tossing them in the trash.In a new study, researchers found that when people wrote down their thoughts on a piece of paper and then threw the paper away, they mentally discarded the thoughts as well. … Read more

Number of words: 1,058 The entrance to the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center is busy and confusing. Based on how much the soldier at the gate my Uber driver and I pulled up to was shouting at us, we were not doing a great job of navigating that entrance. But after a few phone … Read more

Number of words: 517 Choosing a high-calorie indulgent dessert may lead you to pick up healthier main and side dishes, according to a study.The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, placed either a healthy or less healthy dessert (fresh fruit vs lemon cheesecake) at the beginning or end of a university cafeteria line.When … Read more

Number of words: 685 Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death. The brains could not think or sense anything, researchers stressed. By medical standards “this is not a living brain,” said Nenad Sestan of … Read more

Number of words: 357 A group of scientists have developed a way to translate brain waves directly into human speech, potentially giving patients who are unable to use their voices another way to communicate. While the science is still a long way from a method that can be used as an interpreter for people who … Read more

Number of words: 376 Scientists have determined the ideal wing shape for fast flapping flight — an advance that may lead to better methods for harvesting energy from water as well as for enhancing airspeed. The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, relies on a technique that mimics evolutionary biology … Read more

Number of words: 167 The long and the short of it was that the primitive people who ate historically indigenous diets almost always had all 32, perfectly aligned teeth, and cavities were a rarity. The photographs of these native people show smiles out of People magazine. They were attractive, cheerful, robust, fertile, and free from … Read more

Number of words – 1,064 In Corvallis, Oregon, Posy Busby works in a garden planted with 3,000 black cottonwood trees that represent 1,000 unique genetic specimens, each originally found somewhere on the West Coast of North America, from California to Canada. Cottonwoods are some of the fastest-growing trees in the world, and the garden looks … Read more

Number of words – 144 Galileo brought physics into mathematics. Olympiad astronomy, by modelling his way of studying motion and the methods in astronomy. In 1612, he wrote a memorandum on how to investigate nature, stating the procedure in four parts: 1. Start with the phenomenon based on the sense observations we see everyday. 2. … Read more