Last year, we wrote about a group of international researchers working on a self-sustaining system for a colony on Mars. According to the latest plans, the city will have room for 250 thousand inhabitants and will gradually grow to one…
Too many mariners die from fires or man-overboard situations because they cannot easily be located at the time of the accident. In Europe during 2019 alone, 60 people died aboard commercial ships. At lot of these casualties could be prevented…
One of my favorite sayings is the English idiom “every cloud has a silver lining.” It belies my optimistic worldview. I am the type of person whose battery recharges itself when I manage to turn a negative cadence into a…
Composites are becoming more popular by the year. These types of material combine light weight with ease of use and delivers high levels of performance. The downside is that composites are not great for the environment, as they tend to…
When we think of robots in the military, the fear of autonomously-shooting drones and vehicles that move without any human intervention quickly tends to take over. According to Jeroen van der Vlugt, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Dutch Ministry…
To grit or not to grit. That is the question that road authorities ask themselves every winter when mercury levels drop to around freezing point or go under it. If gritter trucks s are brought in too late, road safety…
Researchers from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are proposing a novel way to keep fake accounts and misinformation online at bay. A fundamental issue, according to Dr. Bryan Ford, Associate Professor at the EPFL computer science department, is that…
Respyre, an Amsterdam based start-up, are developing a bio-receptive concrete product that stimulates the growth of moss. With it, they envision turning cities into urban landscapes that – quite literally – breathe. “We want to make the cities breath because…
If all goes well, we will witness the last spring of the corona pandemic this year. If there are no major corona catastrophes on the horizon, vaccination coverage among the wealthier segment of the world’s population should be high enough…
Researchers in Norway are creating a machine-learning model to better understand where plastic waste comes from and predict where it will collect. The model is in the form of an open-source app that will allow people to photograph plastic waste…