Tackling fire in a microgravity environment like that of space cabins presents many more headaches than on Earth, but Toyohashi University of Technology has found a brilliant solution, which could find a wider outlet in the future.
Beyond Meat has focused everything on changing consumer eating habits to move to a model with zero or very little meat and its vegetarian alternatives. Are you right?
A very curious gadget, but definitely useful for those who don't know how to keep the shopping mania in check, the Pavlok bracelet aims to block excessively expensive purchases without half measures, that is, by giving a nice 340 volt shock that promises to make the desire go away to spend even the most convinced people. The intention of Pavlok, this is the name of the bracelet, is extremely interesting, because it exploits the concept of the Internet of Things, according to which objects are … Read more
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
It's not the first and it won't be the last. Scientists from the University of Groningen (Holland) and the Empa research center (Switzerland) have created a nanometric transport system equipped with four motor units (translation: a “namomachine”). It's electric, four nanometers long and every half turn of the wheels has to fill up... It works thanks to a scanning tunneling microscope positioned above it, which transmits a tiny electric charge that causes reversible structural changes in the wheels (translation: … Read more
While the Bel Paese struggles with economic reforms and new political pressures, yesterday the first independent test took place on a new energy technology called E-Cat: it is a system that uses low-energy nuclear reactions to produce enormous quantities of cheap and clean energy. If it works, it will be a complete revolution for our society: as Mina said "..and I underline SE". Over the past 2 years, the E-Cat concept and prototypes have been… Read more
The Christmas holidays are coming and as always the world is divided: I'm not talking about wars and physical or ideological conflicts, I'm referring to the division between those who spend this period looking for more time to spend with their loved ones, and those who take the opportunity to do shopping and grabbing any object, once again, seamlessly. What do we really need? Time passes quickly: a century ago Christmas was completely different (even Santa Claus, ... Read more
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