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.

RiverBlue documentary exposes the dark side of fashion industry

RiverBlue is a new documentary that delves deep into the shocking underbelly of fast fashion to expose its destructive and widespread impacts on our environment.

New gadget lets your smartphone detect cancer with laboratory precision

Researchers have created a low-cost, portable smartphone-based cancer screening device that can, for the first time, evaluate several samples at once with lab quality results.

European Parliament Votes in Favor of 70% Recycling Goal

Four legislative amendments will help the European Union recycle 70 percent of its municipal waste and 80 percent of its packaging material by 2030.

Estonia’s mission to the moon could revolutionize space travel

ESTCube-2 is planned to blast off in 2019. The main objective for ESTCube-2 is to test a “plasma brake”. This is a new method of deorbiting satellites, which could help mitigate the problem of space debris.

Here’s the first 3D glimpse of how DNA is packaged up in a single cell

The balled structure reveals organization, which is critical for gene activity.

Three solar thermal plants in Chile could generate electricity 24 hours a day

Tamarugal project expected to theoretically generate 2,600 GWh of electricity annually.

Italy has already surpassed its renewable energy target for 2020

Over 17 percent of energy in Italy comes from renewable sources. The figure had reached 17.5 percent by the end of 2015, putting the country ahead of its target for 2020 five years early.

Scientists use solar power to produce hydrogen from biomass

Scientists in England have developed a technique that uses solar power to produce clean hydrogen from biomass.

The dark psychology of dehumanization, explained

Nour Kteily is a psychologist at Northwestern University whose research is about understanding one of the darkest, most ancient, and most disturbing mental programs encoded into our minds: dehumanization, the ability to see fellow men and women as less than human.

Climate change to worsen drought, diminish corn yields in Africa

Corn is extremely sensitive to drought and since 2015 its production has fallen dramatically as a result of record-setting drought conditions across southern and eastern Africa.

Europe's First Spacecraft to Jupiter Will Be Taking a Crazy Route

They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but for JUICE—a European Space Agency-led, Jupiter-bound probe scheduled to launch in 2022.

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.

Wi-fi on rays of light: 100 times faster, and never overloaded

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have come up with a surprising solution: a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays. The capacity is huge - more than 40Gbit/s per ray.