Grow furniture instead of building it? That's what they're trying to find out at MIT, growing wood in the laboratory as meat is done today, and without trees being felled.
Breast milk has many nutrients and some mysteries. Biomilq and other companies work to reproduce it in the laboratory: here's how.
In the imagination of science fiction, space travel is possible thanks to a form of hibernation practiced on astronauts. Science takes steps towards suspended animation in recent research.
The climate is now that of a cold war, with more or less direct cross accusations. The latest focuses once again on the Wuhan laboratory.
No more chemicals that indistinctly affect sick and healthy cells: nanobots are intelligent machines, and will soon show their value
It happened in Russia: a rather intelligent robot escaped from the laboratory where it was under construction and blocked traffic for quite a while. Maybe this wasn't his intention, but the level of intelligence and autonomy achieved by these new robots is incredible. The robot learning to orient itself autonomously, test after test. Suddenly the door was left open and, just like a Roomba, our little robot came out until it reached the street. The escape took place… Read more
We've been talking about the iCar for a very long time: it's the electric car that Apple is about to create. According to the latest rumors, Apple has built a secret laboratory in the heart of Berlin to develop its iCar. Faz broke the news, adding further details on the project called "Titan", revealed last year by the Wall Street Journal. In Berlin there would be around 15-20 men and women, leading exponents of the German automotive world, to create the car of the future, on the international market by ... Read more
Human tissues made with 3D printers could very soon save millions of lives: those of laboratory rats. More than three hundred million animals are killed every year in scientific laboratories and research centers around the world: they are mostly mice, rats and rabbits which are used to study vaccines and drugs to be tested in subsequent phases on humans: it is a sad (and sometimes necessary) reality that could soon be avoided. At Heriot Watt… Read more
How about a vehicle with thorium engine, which runs without polluting and does it for 100 years without stopping with only 8gr of fuel?
Venice experiments with the entrance ticket to regulate mass tourism. But for a sustainable future, broader strategies are needed, from decentralization to visitor education.
TikTok has become an unstoppable force in Western culture. Precisely for this reason it is impossible to ignore it: and precisely for this reason it risks being banned.
Car-dependent cities pose a danger to health, the environment and public safety. It's time to rethink urban spaces to cut traffic and smog.
The mystery of the strange orbits of trans-Neptunian objects could be solved by the existence of Planet 9, according to two new studies published by Caltech researchers.
With a battery life of 10 hours and a sophisticated navigation system, this robot penguin is ready to redefine underwater standards.
A team from the University of Queensland has developed a revolutionary nanogenerator that absorbs CO2 to produce electricity, demonstrating how we can turn it from a problem into a resource.
AI accelerates the pace of biotech innovation: are we ready to do what is necessary to drive this epochal transformation?
A "hello" between species: this is the meaning of the exchange of vocalizations between SETI Institute researchers and Twain, an Alaskan humpback whale.
Thanks to electrodes and mathematical models, they reconstruct the sound "sung" silently during the thresholds. A discovery that brings us closer to the animal mind.
Despite the exponential increase in energy consumption, Large Language Models show only linear improvements. Signs of a dead end towards AGI.
From nature to engineering: Dynafin, or how ABB translated the majesty of a whale into a cutting-edge propeller. Poetry and technology navigate together.
NASA's toughest bacterium, discovered in cleanrooms, is now the key ingredient in a revolutionary sunscreen that offers unmatched UV protection.
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