In 1886 the German engineer Karl Benz registered, at the German Empire Patent Office, Patent Motorwagen, renamed by the press "Velociped": the first car in history with three wheels and powered by ligroina (oil ether), a sort of "light...
Sustainable flights and low CO2 levels. This is the goal of easyJet and Airbus which in 2019 announced a joint research project on hybrid and electric aircraft to foster knowledge of the sector of the operational and infrastructural opportunities...
Borophene is the new material of the future and can have many applications in every field, from batteries to electronics, from chemistry to physics. This material is intended to replace graphene, which until recently was a turning point, due...
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation, changing our lives and the way we relate to technology on a daily basis. From smart-working to distance learning, from video conferences to online events, from e-commerce to home banking, our use...
Plastic bags, bottles, other packaging that has been thrown away and pollutants have been converted into hydrogen, a source of clean energy, using microwaves and an easily available catalyst. The work, led by an international team led by English...
Sustainable development also means transforming used
absorbent personal products, baby diapers, feminine pads and products for
incontinence into resources for the environment and for the economy. The
technological recycling process was developed by an Italian company, Fater
Smart, part of the Fater Spa...
Ecosia is
the first green search engine, which claims to donate 80% of the proceeds from
online advertising to reforestation programs, for example in the Amazon and
Burkina Faso. Ecosia was born in 2009 from an idea of its founder, the German
Christian...
Cleaning the oceans from microplastics, administering drugs, freeing the arteries: these are some of the tasks that Xenobots, innovative robots made of living cells and programmed as supercomputers, can perform. Xenobots were created by scientists from Tufts University in...
The search for gold can be very harmful for the environment
and for salmon, whose natural habitat is damaged by miners. Apple uses gold in all
its devices and has chosen to obtain it only from miners who, after the mining
operations,...
Innovative, sustainable and natural packaging capable of
replacing plastic packaging: the idea was developed by IUV, an Italian start-up
that launched edible and biodegradable films with the aim of replacing the
plastic packaging of the Food & Beverage sector and reduce food...
