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Facebook will "tell" photos to blind people

April 5 2016

Technology can greatly help blind people to orient themselves in such a complex and, at times, even dangerous world. Facebook is making many steps forward to bring technology to those who cannot see, and from today it seems that it will also be able to "tell" photos. The new service is launched today to act as a guide for those who cannot see all the photographs that social networks are flooded with. The system works using artificial intelligence: in short, Facebook's servers are… Read more

The first all-Italian flexible robot arrives

March 17 2021March 23 2016

Italy is not always at the rear of scientific and technological research, on the contrary. Today's news is the creation of the first flexible robot in the world, and it is an entirely Italian discovery. In fact, the first patent in the world has been registered for a flexible robot, with a shape that recalls that of a snake: as can be seen from the photo, these are two "intertwined" structures that make it up and which allow it to stretch and bend, avoiding precision every obstacle. The … Read more

Amazon will make us travel into space in 2018

March 10 2016

Amazon intends to change our lives, and not just when it comes to purchasing products online. No, Jeff Bezos really wants to take us into space, as tourists, and he promises to do it within just two years. Science fiction or very close reality? In fact, it seems that Bezos will begin testing space flights with people on board next year and, if all goes well, tourists in groups of six will be able to experience a short space flight as early as 2018. Bezos himself said it, ... Read more

Research uncovers the weakness of cancer

March 8 2016

Are we facing an epochal turning point? Researchers, in fact, may have discovered the weak point of cancer, even at the terminal stage. A team of researchers from University College London, in fact, managed to identify a strategy, supported by funding from Cancer Research UK and the Rosetrees Trust. The research, published in Science, explains how the genetic complexity of tumors can be recognized and exploited by the immune system. When a cancer develops in the human body, in fact, the diversity of its genetic defects can be ... Read more

3D printing of human organs and tissues is reality

February 25 2016

We have all asked ourselves at least once: but what is 3D printing for? To many things, including the faithful reproduction of human organs and tissues. Will organ donation become a distant memory? Reading the latest news, it seems so. The news was broken by the team at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, whose researchers have found a way to print "living" tissues and organs that can function properly when implanted in the body of ... Read more

Unexplained area discovered on the surface of Mars

February 11 2016

Stars and planets are fascinating universes, which every day reveal dark and difficult to explain areas. It happened recently with the discoveries involving the planet Pluto, where a mountain chain was discovered that overturns every scientific thought carried out so far and it also happens today with Mars, a planet that seemed to have been studied in every single portion of it. The Curiosity probe has in fact detected the presence of a very special area in the crater area... Read more

Alphabet starts to move: in the Google Loon test phase, the web goes on a hot air balloon

February 3 2016November 26, 2015

Alphabet, the Google super-holding founded in August which unites innovative companies in the field of new technologies and medicine, is about to enter the testing phase with its first project, Google Loon. It is a series of sounding balloons that travel at high altitudes creating a global internet transmission network. The web giant has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license to test experimental radio mechanisms in 50 states of American soil and in Puerto Rico, attaching a ... Read more

Tension in Turkey: Russia deploys its S-400, a fearsome weapon.

February 3 2016November 25, 2015

Technical evidence of Third World War: in an interview with Sputnik News (a rather pro-government Russian site), the head of the Turkish Intelligence department Hakki Pekin stigmatized the recent shooting down of the Russian Sukhoi24 bomber by the Turkish air force, calling it a " big mistake." Pekin predicts big problems from now on, and a very tough and well-organized response. “Aside from the cancellation of official visits and probable economic sanctions, Russia is placing its Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad. And … Read more

A study definitively proves that aging is reversible

January 27 2017November 20, 2015

A group of French scientists managed to restore the original functions of cells taken from over 1-year-old patients, reprogramming them and returning them to the stem cell stage: this is proof that the aging process can in fact be reversed. The research on the possibility of removing the signs left by cellular aging, published on November 2011, XNUMX in the journal Genes & Development, “opens up a new era of regenerative medicine,” declares Jean Marc Lemaitre, who directed the study at the Institute of … Read more

The future world will have stateless nations

December 21 2019November 19, 2015

It is a truly complicated period on a geopolitical level: an epochal transition towards the future world that almost imposes the dynamics of social networks even on political entities. What is happening in Syria (and in other neighboring nations) has every appearance of being a transition from a world of "nation states" to a world of "stateless nations". It is not the only indication of a change: other unknown factors that determine citizenship or belonging to a territory are changing. … Read more

Venter: Big data will make us live well beyond one hundred years

November 17, 2015

Lifespans could very soon begin to rocket upwards beyond three-digit numbers. According to David Agus and Craig Venter, we are on the eve of an extraordinary medical revolution: Agus, Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California, declared very precisely that the average lifespan will very soon reach around 100 years. Craig Venter, co-founder and head of Human Longevity inc. relaunches by stating that there is no limit to the years we could live, except the capacity... Read more

Flexible sensors: a revolution. Our life at a glance.

November 4, 2015

The best medical devices for measuring blood pressure today require a prolonged stay of the patient in the clinic. An experimental sensor can adhere to the skin almost like a tattoo and monitor this parameter in real time 24 hours a day. Why is a wearable sensor a revolution? A flexible and wearable sensor marks the difference between a simple 'photograph' of the patient and a constant path that allows us to perfectly understand what correlations exist between daily activities and the variation... Read more

Motobot: Yamaha has its automatic centaur

November 2, 2015

Directly from the Tokyo Motor Show 2015 one of the most attractive elements: a robot-centaur presented by Yamaha. Its name is Motobot: it is a concept being tested by the research and development department of the Japanese company. A device capable of driving an unmodified motorbike, currently at a speed of 120km per hour but expected to reach 200km per hour. The first bike 'ridden' by Motobot is a YZF-R1M. One of the most interesting challenges… Read more

Climate project: Carrefour awards 7 companies

November 5, 2022October 26, 2015

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

Floatwing: the house independent of space and energy

October 25, 2015

What do you think of a modular houseboat that provides for its own energy needs? You don't have to go far with your imagination: his name is Floatwing. Designed by the Portuguese agency Friday, this house can generate all the energy it needs for a year in just 6 months. Equipped with a robust photovoltaic system, a wastewater treatment mechanism and other elements, Floatwing is a true concentration of technologies for … Read more

Google Glass to cure Autism

October 23, 2015

The Autism Glass Project is a laboratory at the School of Medicine: in a small office in the administration building, researchers Catalin Voss and Nick Haber are bringing together facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence to create new autism treatments. The second phase will involve 100 young people to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatments, which can also be carried out at home. The goal is to create a sort of "translator of emotions" capable of providing children with a "dictionary" of moods in real time... Read more

Dear CERN, your accelerator is out of date

October 15, 2015

A team of researchers has developed the first prototype of a miniature particle accelerator, which uses terahertz waves instead of radio frequencies. A single accelerator module is just 1 centimeters in size, and a millimeter thin. Terahertz technology could allow the miniaturization of the entire apparatus: this is the objective of the group led by Franz Kärtner, of the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science. The prototype was presented with an article in the scientific journal Nature. The author hypothesizes numerous fields of application of accelerators… Read more

Medical innovations coming thanks to nano sensors

November 5, 2022October 10, 2015

David Sretavan, professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, studies how to repair damage to the optic nerve caused by glaucoma, a disorder that causes irreversible blindness and affects approximately 70 million individuals worldwide. Glaucoma is a disorder that arises from a complex of causes without an apparent trigger. We try to monitor its possible onset by measuring the pressure of the eyeball, but the rapid and frequent fluctuations of ... Read more

The gym in a nutshell

October 15, 2015October 10, 2015

Everyone knows that there is no way to get a sculpted physique without exercise: exercising outdoors or in the gym improves health and has excellent effects on metabolism, circulation and brain function. Starting from this now acquired knowledge, scientists have begun to research solutions to develop "physique pills" capable of obtaining in whole or in part the same effects that the gym and training have on the body. Research published in the journal Trends in Pharmacological… Read more

The new “yellow threat” is called J31

October 10, 2015

The arms race continues not so quietly: the eastern side of the planet is equipped with instruments that until now were the prerogative only of a few Western superpowers that can be counted on the finger of one hand. China is also perfecting an invisible aircraft: the Chinese Stealth J31 borrows a lot of the technology from the American F-35 jet. It is a twin-engine jet that has the same configuration as other 5th generation fighters such as the Sukhoi T-50. The trapezoidal wings and… Read more

Fight against a half obese and half hungry world: which side are you on?

November 5, 2022April 28 2014

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

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