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Dropping the price of these seven foods will prevent thousands of deaths

A new study has found that the impact of price subsidies on healthy foods and increased taxes on unhealthy foods would result in 63,000 fewer deaths per year in the United States. In particular, the researchers found that a 10 percent price decrease to seven particular foods alone could prevent tens of thousands of deaths from diabetes.

This company is using solar panels to harvest water directly from the air

How Elon Musk built the world’s biggest battery in 60 days

When an apocalyptic storm hit South Australia in September of 2016, the regional electricity grid failed and left 1.7 million residents in the darkness. Then the Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull tried to blame the state’s recent turn toward renewable energy, prompting Elon Musk to make an unbelievable bet that Tesla could build the world’s biggest battery in 100 days. See here how Tesla did it in 60.

In the United Kingdom, Pizza Hut has begun to offer vegan cheese at all of its locations

Can you turn a conservative into a liberal?

In the past, laboratory studies have found that the political and social attitudes of liberal adults became more conservative when they experienced physical threat. Now the first experiment has been conducted to try and find what can make a conservative become a liberal. The results say a lot about our political divisions.