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Digital Gratitude Journal for the World Launched by UC Berkeley Center

Robert Emmons was shocked. The University of California psychologist found that after just ten weeks, people who kept a gratitude journal were 25 percent happier than people who didn't. People who were reminded to say thank you at least once a day were healthier and spent more time exercising. As he writes in an essay for the Greater Good Science Center, This is a massive difference. The gratitude group participants also experienced fewer symptoms of physical illness than those in either of the other two groups." This month the Center launched a web-based digital gratitude journal at Thnx4.org designed to track and promote the practice of gratitude worldwide while serving as an invaluable source of scientific data on gratitude.

Engineers Are FUN! Watch This Video and Believe Your Eyes

The civil engineers behind some of London's most iconic infrastructure projects have put on their dancing shoes to show the public how happy they are to be engineers.

By Jeanne Goddard

13 November 27 Views

Amazon Forest More Resilient to Climate Change Than Feared

The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on Wednesday.

By Jeanne Goddard

08 February 28 Views

Another Advancement in Hydrogen Fuel Uses Cheap Abundant Sulfide

The hydrogen fuel process has been limited by the lack of perfect parts. Platinum works, it's just too expensive and rare. Now, scientists have found and tested an abundant and inexpensive catalyst — molybdenum sulfide — a necessary step on the road to the elusive clean, green hydrogen economy.

By Jeanne Goddard

06 May 34 Views

Teenage Physics Wonder Turns to Nuclear Safety

It may sound scary for a teenager to be handling radiation, but Taylor Wilson's radioactive rocks are safe. There's never been any reason for concern, until he decided to build his own reactor -- in his garage. He was trying to produce nuclear fission -- because he thought he could. There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents, he said.

By Jeanne Goddard

21 May 29 Views

Dyson Award-winner Makes Water Out of Thin Air for Farmers

An Australian designer from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne is the winner of the 2011 James Dyson award for his Airdrop – a low-cost, low-maintenance tecnology for farming in arid areas. Dyson, an Inventor and entrepreneur, said Edward Linacre's invention shows how simple, natural principles such as the condensation of water can be applied to good effect through skilled design and robust engineering.

By Jeanne Goddard

23 November 36 Views

Paper Companies Find Substitute for Trees

Paper Companies Find Substitute for Trees

By Hanna Vojtush

19 May 35 Views

Dyson Award-winner Makes Water Out of Thin Air Helping Farmers

An Australian designer from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne is the winner of the 2011 James Dyson award for his Airdrop – a low-cost, low-maintenance tecnology for farming in arid areas. Dyson, an Inventor and entrepreneur, said Edward Linacre's invention shows how simple, natural principles can be applied to good effect through skilled design and robust engineering.

By Jeanne Goddard

23 November 30 Views

Ducks Near Extinction Hang On, 18 Babies Hatched in Lab

On a remote lake in Madagascar, a fateful discovery of 22 ducks belonging to a variety thought to be extinct, inspired a group of conservationists to mobilize a last ditch effort to save the species, which had been previously been written off. This week, as the Madagascar pochard's only remaining wild population hangs on with just 22 adult birds surviving, the captive breeding program started in 2009 celebrated a huge success with the birth of 18 new babies.

By Jeanne Goddard

08 April 38 Views

Stunning Recovery for First Child to Get Stem Cell Trachea

The first child in history to receive a trachea fashioned by his own stem cells has shown remarkable progress since the initial transplant two years ago, marking a new record for the novel procedure, which prevents risk from organ transplant rejection.

By Jeanne Goddard

26 July 27 Views

Bitterns: The Endangered UK Birds Whose Population is Booming At Last

The boom of the bittern is being heard across Britain once again, after more than a century in which the bird has hovered on the edge of extinction. Noted for its foghorn-like call or boom, the bittern has made a recovery in numbers that the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds described last week as a phenomenal success.

By Jeanne Goddard

13 February 36 Views

Tracking Subtle Scent, a Dog Helps Save the Orca Whales

A dog named Tucker with a mysterious past as a stray on the streets of Seattle has become an unexpected star in the realm of canine-assisted scientific research. He is the world's only working dog, marine biologists say, able to find and track the scent of orca feces, in open ocean water — up to a mile away.

By Jeanne Goddard

06 September 28 Views

Galápagos Tortoise Thought to be Extinct Still Lives

Researchers from Yale University say dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galápagos Islands.

By Jeanne Goddard

14 January 24 Views

New Study Shows That 'Lovebirds' Actually May Fall In Love

Scientists learn that finches allowed to freely choose their mates make for happier couples and better parents.

18 September 29 Views

Scientists Make Progress in Tailor-Made Organs Using Body's Own Cells

Tissue engineers are building organs using the body's own cells and letting the body do most of the work. At Wake Forest University in North Carolina, for example, where the first bladders were developed, researchers are working on kidneys, livers and more. Labs in China and the Netherlands are among many working on blood vessels.

By Jeanne Goddard

17 September 27 Views

Designer's Low Cost Solution for Clearing Landmines Uses the Wind

Massoud Hassani grew up in Afghanistan and played every day in nearby fields, surrounded by high mountains. His favorite toy was homemade, a small rolling object that was powered by the wind. 20 years later, his 2011 graduation project was an over-sized replica of that toy -- 20 times bigger and heaver -- created to roll on those same landmines and destroy them.

By Jeanne Goddard

11 December 31 Views

Scientists Discover How to Make Ethanol Using Just Water on Metal

Stanford University scientists have found a new, highly efficient way to produce liquid ethanol that doesn't involve energy intensive food production, like ethanol production from crops.

By Jeanne Goddard

13 April 30 Views

Two Monolith Machines Suck Carbon Out of the Air in California

Peter Eisenberger, a distinguished professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, has build two machines in Menlo Park, Calif., that pull carbon dioxide out of the air, like a catalytic converter for your car, but giant-sized. The challenging part was figuring out what to do with the CO2 once it was captured. But he thinks he's found the perfect solution making fuel.

By Jeanne Goddard

27 June 32 Views

Team Behind Virgin Galactic Unveils A Hybrid Electric Flying Car

Forget those gas-guzzling flying cars. Now you can drive and fly while saving lots of money on fuel. The hybrid flying car, called BiPod gets 820 miles on a tank of gas and 35 miles in electric mode.

By Jeanne Goddard

20 July 29 Views

Mars Rover Beats the Odds, Lands on Red Planet, Beams Back Photos

Facing unfavorable odds, the U.S. scored a huge victory, sticking a landing on the surface of Mars early Monday, setting down the largest and most sophisticated mobile laboratory ever deployed, which is now beaming back photos of the red planet. NASA ground control engineers flew into a frenzy of high-fives, hugs and cheers after NASA's Curiosity rover survived a perilous seven-minute plunge to the surface of the red planet.

By Jeanne Goddard

06 August 43 Views