Technology
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Technology Sweden10. December 2023Public Transport Evolution: First All-Electric Flying Boat in the Works
A Swedish tech company has designed the world’s first all-electric hydrofoil passenger boat, and should the test flight be a success, the vessel could join Stockholm’s public transport network in 2024.
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Technology China7. November 2023This Sponge Filters Highly-Polluting Microplastics from Water
A team of researchers based in China has developed a synthetic and extra-light sponge that could very well be a formidable solution to microplastic pollution in the planet’s reserves of water, both saline and fresh.
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Technology United Kingdom29. October 2023Extracting Gold from Electronic Waste Is Getting Easier
The Royal Mint, the United Kingdom’s official coin producer, spent the last two years developing a mysterious technique to extract gold from electronic waste, preventing hundreds of kilograms of gold every year from ending up in landfills.
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Technology Somaliland23. October 2023Free App Helps Thousands of People Read
A new free app is making all the difference for the population of Somaliland and across the Horn of Africa, helping hundreds of thousands of people learn how to read, even those who live in the most remote parts of the country, since it can work…
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Technology USA20. October 2023Carbon-Negative Concrete: an Environmental Gamechanger?
In the global race to shrink concrete’s carbon footprint, the most effective solution came from an American winery, an unexpected ally, that produced the very first carbon-negative slab in North America, a solution that could revolutionize completely the highly polluting industry.
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Technology The World10. October 2023The Human Genome Has Officially Been Completely Sequenced!
Two papers confirm the sequencing of dozens of Y chromosomes from men, a once-considered "impossible" task, marking the final step of fully sequencing the human genome - a much-anticipated goal now complete!