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Plans to fully reintroduce your skin to the great outdoors are about to get a whole lot better, thanks to a Dermstore sale that’s kicking off just before Memorial Day. Consider the retailer’s Summer Event, your 10-day celebratory start to a season of healthy, hydrated skin and hair. The sale begins on May 24 and…
The last year has been a particularly strong one for hair color experimentation. Pink was the hue of 2020, as evidenced by the various rosy shades that popped up on celebrities like Demi Lovato, Ciara, and Kate Hudson. With 2021 came an update to the ’80s mullet, this one reimagined in dueling hues and sometimes…
If our Readers’ Choice Awards have proven anything over the years, it’s that Allure readers have impeccable taste in beauty and personal-care products. More often than not, a slew of especially affordable products make the cut, because our readers know a low price doesn’t automatically mean underwhelming results. In fact, some of the most impressive…
[ad_1] May 22, 2021– Yes, scientists have discovered that plants can communicate with each other. This animated short, commissioned by the BBC World Service, explores what has been dubbed “The Wood Wide Web” – the intricate web of fungi that connects plants in entire forests. Says ecologist Suzanne Simard: “Trees are ‘social creatures’ that communicate…
[ad_1] Sarah BMay 22, 2021 Using powerful affirmations every day can help you beat depression and improve your overall well-being. When you are depressed, your confidence and self-esteem is low. The key to overcome depression it’s giving those things a boost and changing your thinking for the better. You need to let go of negative…
[ad_1] A research team in Montreal has been busy developing a personalized cancer vaccine that works in mice. At the Research Center of the University of Montreal Hospital (CRCHUM), Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault and a team of scientists modify viruses to make them specific to tumor cells. Once in the patient’s body, these viruses, called oncolytic viruses,…
[ad_1] Jones Shipyard Hope floats. Swans nests don’t, unless they get a little help from someone determined to make sure their precious cargo has a chance to hatch. Rob Adamson, who lives and works at the Jones Boatyard in St Ives, England, has long been a bystander to the efforts of the world’s “most unfortunate…
[ad_1] Arthur Krijgsman Reprinted with permission from World in general, a news website on nature, politics, science, health and travel. Winner of Europe’s Leading Island Destination award for five consecutive years, the Portuguese island of Madeira seeks to capitalize on the increase in the number of a unique type of traveler, digital nomads, by building…
[ad_1] Finch A nifty new Chrome extension uses machine learning to rank products on Amazon by their eco-aspects, enabling consumers to make sustainable decisions about paper mill runoff or deforestation without having to do research on their breaks to lunch. Called Finch, its ranking can be applied to the top 41 product categories on Amazon,…
[ad_1] The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has just ended what has been described as a 52-year monopoly on the cultivation of cannabis for research purposes. Several large-scale cannabis growers have been awarded contracts to produce marijuana for federal research, a move that will hopefully go a long way toward demonstrating what many state and foreign…