Soapack, against plastic packaging made of soap
Soapack is a vegetable oil-based soap packaging mixed with mineral pigments, plants and flowers that dissolves only when its contents run out.
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The first fruit grown on the ISS has a nice temper
The researchers send Capsicum annuum seeds, the chili pepper from Chili, on board. It will be the first fruit grown in space by the ISS astronauts.
Soleina, a Finnish startup literally makes food from the air
The company said the manufacturing process makes Soleine 100 times more environmentally friendly than any other protein source.
Ascension, a vertical forest in Croatia
A Turkish architecture team wins the competition for a vertical forest in Croatia by designing this futuristic “canoe” for the city of Zagreb
MIT experiments with "living" solar cells to grow
One day we may literally “grow” our own energy by watering and nourishing our biological solar cells.
Gardens instead of tombs: composting of the dead is authorized for the first time in the world
The Governor of Washington state signs an agreement to "compost" the deceased: it is the first time in the world. The 'green revolution' will also change the cult of the dead.
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.
The agriculture of the future: canned plantations.
The word "plantation" usually evokes bucolic visions of green fields, waves of ears of corn and animals, but the agriculture of the future has more to do with the now familiar environments in which we live: a parking lot, a pizza, a crowded city street.
The largest company in 2030 will supply robot teachers
Just thirty years ago the frontier was a school with a computer. Today, the frontier is having students with their own laptop. According to futurologist Thomas Frey, in the next 14 years the frontier will be to have students learning from robot teachers on the internet, and the company that will be able to provide this service will become one of the largest, richest and most important in the world. Frey's prediction is certainly made taking into account the latest macroscopic advances in artificial intelligence research. Robot teachers… Read more
Robot bees will fill the hives of the future
At Harvard, cybernetic insects are being studied, robot #bees that could fly from flower to flower and, within ten years, be able to pollinate plants. Since bees and real insects are in short supply, robotic technology will help us. The depopulation of beehives has been underway for a few years now, and the phenomenon shows no signs of stopping. European and North American beekeepers lose up to 30% of their bees every year: among the many causes there is also a mite... Read more
How to become a Martian. The course is coming
The movie The Martian seemed like pure science fiction just a few years ago, with Matt Damon surviving on Martian soil for months on end growing potatoes and producing water. Yet today there are those, like Elon Musk, who dream of bringing as many people as possible to the Red Planet. Other scientists do not reject the idea of a mass migration to #Mars, once the Earth has been definitively exploited. Within ten years, according to Elon Musk (who founded the SpaceX space agency), there will already be… Read more
In the sky, a satellite that monitors the health of the earth
On June 23 last year, the Sentinel 2A satellite flew among the stars, a device that will monitor the health of our planet using colors. That's right, as the satellite is equipped with a special camera connected to the Sentinel 1A radar, which can scrutinize large swathes of territory using reduced frequencies and which can therefore monitor the changes that have occurred in global agricultural crops, offering an accuracy of unprecedented images. It's about… Read more
6 bets for the future
The list of technologies under study is very long and is constantly updated: one of the latest lists of future developments that could change the world forever comes from the Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a research center founded in 2004 by a philosopher, Nick Bostrom, and a bioethicist, James Huges. The list, drawn up with the consultancy of futurologist Gray Scott, presents really interesting elements: here are the "magnificent" 6 technologies that could arrive in the near future. Age reversal… Read more
Nomix Toilet, the toilet becomes a biogas generator
A toilet capable of producing biogas from our… er… biological activities? It would be a pretty good innovation.
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
Jobs of the near future: 26 jobs of tomorrow
In the days that mark the fall of the Berlusconi government and the Italian economic crisis (remember? we predicted it on the old site) I am as disheartened as all of you. The moment is difficult: we can only get out of it if all levels of our country change by looking to the future more than to the past. Some jobs will still survive in the future, let's be clear: but there is a whole series of jobs that don't exist today and which could be useful in the near future. Let's go with common sense: 60%... Read more
