SpaceX will help funeral startup launch people's ashes into space

US based startup Elysium Space is offering packages to memorialize the remains of your loved one by sending their ashes into space or to the surface of the moon.

Saudi Arabia Allows Women To Study & Travel Without A Man's Permission

In a bid to empower women, King Salman issued a royal decree to repeal the oppressive male guardianship system.

Gut Bacteria Can Influence Brain Activity, New Research Finds

According to team of neuroscientists in Portugal and Australia, bacteria in the guts may be chemically communicating with the brain in such a way as to impact dietary choices.

Reducing your trans fat intake may help ward off heart attack, stroke

Some communities in the US - most notably New York City - have eliminated the use of trans fats in restaurants and eateries in recent years.

Aging clock and epigenetics

Recent research has shown that DNA methylation, an epigenetic modification is so accurate that chronological age in humans can be predicted +/- 3.6 years from any tissue or fluid in the body. This is referred to as the epigenetic clock.

17,000 Indian Doctors Pledge To Deliver Baby Girls For Free

This gesture from the doctors comes as a remarkable and much needed move in a country where female foeticide and torture to mothers delivering girls is rampant. The neglect of female child is the accomplice for firm desire of having a boy child in their family.

Colombian town turns down $35B gold mine - prefers a clean environment

The town of Cajamarca, Colombia said no to what could have been the biggest gold mine in South America.

Follow-up study suggests group meditation reduced murder rates in large US cities

Large groups practicing the advanced Transcendental Meditation program were associated with significant reductions in murder rates in US urban areas during the period 2007-2010

Former concrete factory begins anew as an alternative high school with no curriculum

The Roskilde Festival Folk High School will differ in many ways from the typical high school. The alternative school has neither curriculum nor exams. Education will usually be focused on creative and humanistic topics, as well as on common life at school.

A Teacher received $1Mil Prize For Life-changing Work in Isolated Arctic Community

Maggie MacDonnell has just been recognized for her astoundingly compassionate 6-year career in an isolated, fly-in village nestled in the Arctic Circle.

How the mind affects the body

In what way is the mind connected to the body, and vice versa?

New experimental architecture school to be built in Denmark

The new Aarhus School of Architecture is meant to be an experimental laboratory serving as a bridge between students and the city, with facilities for learning and community use.

Indigenous South American group has healthiest arteries of all populations yet studied

An 80 year old from the Tsimane group had the same vascular age as a person in mid-fifties, suggests a new report. The Tsimane people - a forager-horticulturalist population of the Bolivian Amazon - have the lowest reported levels of vascular aging for any population.

Lucky Humans Just Ate the Very First Lab-Grown Chicken Tenders

A San Francisco startup plated some fairly familiar dishes at a tasting yesterday, like fried chicken with collard greens and duck l’orange. But these meats didn’t come from gutted bird corpses.