Power Plant Will Use Ocean Tides to Power 155K Homes
This planned power plant in Wales may look like the Guggenheim Museum but its benefits far outweigh the beauty: it will use the rise and fall of ocean tides to generate enough renewable electricity to power 155,000 homes for 120 years. When completed, the structure will produce electricity enough to displace more than a quarter […]
Torn Between Red and White? For Halloween, Try Orange Wines
Torn between white and red wines? Orange might be the perfect happy medium–especially with Halloween parties around the corner. Orange wines are similar to white wine, but with the full-bodied, tannic taste of a red and a copper-color. Though there are different methods, orange wines are typically made by allowing the grapes to macerate in […]
tips to help you avoid kidney stones
Rayshell Clapper, STEAMRegister.com Kidney stones affect many people on a regular basis. For some, a kidney stone occurs rarely, if eve. Others may suffer from the pain and frustration of kidney stones several times throughout their lives. Kidney stones are hard crystal masses formed in the kidneys that are usually made up of insoluble calcium […]
Climate Could Create Next Refugee Crisis
Even though battling climate change was added as one of the new sustainable-development goals during the recent session of the United Nations General Assembly, the organization’s definition of a refugee has remained focused on people escaping persecution, excluding climate change as a factor. But sea levels have continued to rise around the globe — a […]
Will ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ ever happen?
It’s a nightmarish scenario straight from the movies, but could it ever truly happen? A new scientific study takes a look at the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow. In the 2004 film, climate warming caused the abrupt collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), leading to catastrophic events […]
How Much Money Do Vegetarians Save From Not Eating Meat?
Evidence has shown that adhering to a so-called “healthy diet” costs $1.50 more per day compared to an unhealthy diet. Now, a recent study published in the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition has found that people who adopt a vegetarian diet save an average of $750 each year on groceries compared to people who […]
New Birth Control For Pets Could Make Spaying And Neutering Obsolete
Pets of the future, rejoice! Expensive and uncomfortable spay and neuter surgery could be a thing of the past- a simple shot in the haunches will do the job. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) may soon be able to change that with what they call “vectored contraception.” Meet The Woman Who Saves […]
IBM Will Collaborate With Univ of Michigan Solar Race Car Team
When the University of Michigan solar race car team competes in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in the Australian Outback beginning October 18, 2015, it will have a partner in IBM. The solar race car team will be able to employ IBM’s cognitive computing to help determine how much solar power will be available during […]
It’s World Octopus Day! Here Are Eight Awesome Octopodes
Hooray—it’s world octopus day. Today we celebrate the excellent eight-legged creatures that grace our oceans, and occasionally even venture out of the water. (Even Aristotle knew: “the only cephalopod to go out on to dry land is the octopus.”) What other animal has three hearts, a brain-like set of nerves in each leg and blue […]
Positive emotions promote heart-healthy behaviors
Emotions are powerful things. Negativity can often lead to health problems, both mentally and physically. Therefore, it’s a good idea to remain as positive as you can throughout life. And that’s especially true for people with heart disease, according to health researchers who say that patients could benefit from maintaining positive emotions. “Negative emotions and […]
