A good shower is a simple shower, no matter what influencers recommend Posted August 9, 2025 You may be seeing elaborate shower cleansing routines on social media: daily exfoliation, double cleansing, antibacterial soap, loads of scented …
India wants air conditioners to be made with milder temperature settings to save energy Posted August 8, 2025 India’s government is seeking to limit temperature settings on new air conditioners to save electricity in the country, which is considered the fastest-growing market for them. …
Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation Posted August 7, 2025 Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestat…
In a country where alcohol is banned, Pakistan’s top brewery is betting on soft drinks Posted August 6, 2025 A pungent fog of malt and yeastiness hangs over Murree Brewery, Pakistan’s biggest and oldest producer of alcoholic drinks. The company is an outlier in a coun…
How space is becoming a trillion-dollar marketplace Posted August 5, 2025 The future of space is privatized. Exploring the solar system is now not just the preserve of government agencies—private companies are finding it’s a …
Vaccines have all but erased the memory of diseases like rubella, but not for one mother Posted August 4, 2025 Vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. is pushing immunization rates down, fueling a rise in illnesses like measles and whooping cough. Devastating infectious diseases …
Trump vents online about service provider after conference call marred by glitch Posted August 3, 2025 On June 30, the president of the United States was just another person complaining online about his service provider. Donald Trump wrote in a pair of posts on Truth Social that…
Morocco bets on video game industry to provide jobs and diversify economy Posted August 2, 2025 Morocco is laying down foundations to build a homegrown gaming industry by establishing a developer hub in the capital, training coders and launching programs to …
A classical drive: Road rumble strips play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in UAE emirate of Fujairah Posted August 1, 2025 The humble road rumble strip, used around the world to alert drifting drivers to potential hazards or lane departures, can play Beethoven on a mountain highway in…
Inside Three Mile Island’s nuclear restart with Microsoft, now targeting 2027 launch, one year ahead of plan Posted July 31, 2025 The operators of the last operating nuclear power reactor at Three Mile Island say they will re-open it, now a year ahead of schedule, in 2027, instead of 2028, because grid opera…