The ordeal of rubber: it works wonders, but it will end. What to do?
Economy, environment and future always intersect. Rubber is a real crossroads: an extraordinary material that is running out, and can cause an earthquake.
Economy, environment and future always intersect. Rubber is a real crossroads: an extraordinary material that is running out, and can cause an earthquake.
Two theoretical physicists create the general model for an ambitious but coherent warp engine. Here's how they think they're traveling faster than light.
Bot Handy and its "two brothers" are excellent ideas from Samsung at CES2021. Aided by AI, the robot butler makes its way to our homes
Several space missions in 2020 suffered delays. In 2021 the calendar is full of events: someone will go swimmingly, someone else who knows. Here they are.
A special airgel “sandwich” that mimics camel hair can cool and keep food and medicines fresh without using electricity.
A world of continuous Covid-19 testing throughout the day? It sounds terrible, but it could be the only way out of the pandemic for a long time to come.
A timeless classic. Can we do better? Here are 15 bike concepts of the future to try and improve on something that looks perfect.
A simple pattern etched onto the photovoltaic panels improves light absorption by 125%. Here are the secrets of a simple but disruptive idea.
Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger dentures? A better understanding of human diseases? This and more could be possible one day, thanks to an ambitious new project from NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA. NIST researchers are in the early stages of a huge undertaking. That of designing and building a fleet of tiny ultrasensitive nano thermometers. If they are successful, their system will be the first to make real-time temperature measurements on a microscopic scale. … Read more
Two groups in Spain and Italy have developed a "sponge" of nanomaterials capable of reconnecting the neurons of a damaged spinal cord
European universal basic income: signature collection begins. In Italy 57.000 are needed, in the EU one million are needed within a year. Are you there?
The technologies to obtain transparent solar panels are making great strides, and will soon power cities in the most disparate ways and points.
A living organism that can reduce temperature and radiation, become a construction material, dress us, feed us and "open our horizons": mycology studies all this, and Merlin Sheldrake is one of its apostles.
Innovative materials study reveals that special probes made as carbon foam bubbles would allow interstellar travel at speeds unimaginable today
A new process makes it possible to coat normal building bricks with PEDOT, a material that can turn bricks into batteries
Voronoi diagrams found everywhere in nature inspire this super light, super safe bike helmet with an extraordinarily organic and familiar design. A masterpiece of lightness and solidity.
Recycled cocoa bean shells for takeaway containers? Remade focuses on sustainable growth in the delivery sector.
The fungi found on the Chernobyl nuclear reactor continue to amaze: they are also able to absorb space radiation on the ISS. They may come in handy on the Martian colonies.
Solar radiation is harmful to our body, you know. Yet you cannot shield everything with lead: a synthetic melanin can solve everything.
Flexible, very light and economical, solar panels printed with traditional systems can revolutionize multiple sectors and extend solar energy to everyone
The pandemic teaches: sustainability, recycling and reuse are the keys to the future. In Italy the king of materials in this sense is wood. Pardon: the Rilegno.