Plants "speak" with ultrasound when subjected to stress
For the 1st time recorded plants that "speak" (emitting ultrasound with information) when stressed: breakthrough in understanding the plant kingdom.
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Cosmic Crisp, the apple that lasts a year in the fridge is on sale
It has a "starry" skin and continues to crunch even after a year. No, she is not Snow White's apple. Perhaps. Gentlemen, the Cosmic Crisp is here.
A smart city in the forest, surrounded by 7 million trees
Architect Stefano Boeri creates a Smart City project that can become a paradigm of the techno-ecological communities of the future.
Aigamo, the robot goose that patrols Japanese rice fields
It oxygenates the water with its "paws" and patrols the rice field: Aigamo will bring an ancient practice back to life and keep a thousand-year-old industry alive
Foods will no longer have an expiration date
We throw away healthy food, or eat bad food thinking it's good: legacies that will end within the next 3 years
Robocrop, the first robot in the world that collects fruit
It takes a minute to finish, a long time for a machine that cost almost 1 million euros to develop, but Robocrop will be the future of fruit harvesting.
The co-inventor of CRISPR: by 2024 we will eat genetically edited food
It's not GMO but science is involved: the food edited with CRISPR promises to be healthier and longer lasting, and according to its co-inventor it will be on the market within 5 years.
In a few years goodbye plastic
Soon we will be able to say goodbye to #plastic food packaging, which will be replaced by edible and biodegradable films produced from milk. This emerges from research by the United States Department of Agriculture presented at the meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia. Within three years the first "milk" packaging should already be ready. "The film produced with milk proteins is very effective in blocking oxygen, ensuring better food preservation... Read more
Climate project: Carrefour awards 7 companies
Carrefour has started to look around among its suppliers (651) to identify the "greenest" companies that are ahead in adopting environmental sustainability policies. The company asked participants to present their projects, then evaluating them with the consultancy of Fedabo, a leading company in the sector, evaluating their innovative scope and producing a ranking: 7 virtuous companies, each for a reason. For Carrefour's sales and marketing director, Grégoire Kaufman, the process was natural: since 2011… Read more
Fight against a half obese and half hungry world: which side are you on?
The fight against waste in an increasingly crowded world immersed in a dense network of economic exchanges is a fundamental direction. Add to this the shortage of energy resources and the scarcity of food and we will have a future scenario that is truly difficult to face, unless we come up with an important idea, or we decide together to work on a better way of producing, consuming, even eating. . Every year, for one thing, almost a billion and a half is wasted... Read more
Airdrop, water from the air in real time
There is nothing more devastating than drought for agriculture: hectares and hectares of cultivated land literally go up in smoke due to the prolonged absence of rain: a prototype developed by Edward Linnacre, a student at Swinburne University in Australia, promises to erase this problem in the future. His name is Airdrop. Here's how it works Despite its rather essential design, Airdrop is able to filter hot air from the environment through a turbine, filter it thanks to a complex system of pipes, … Read more
