In the not too distant future, producing clean and above all renewable energy in Europe may not cost much, thanks to a project financed by the European community under the Horizon 2020 plan. The idea is as simple as...
Create a sort of Vertical Pharmacy to grow medicinal herbs with a high content of active ingredients to be used in the production of drugs and supplements. This is the goal of the collaboration between ENEA and Idromeccanica Lucchini...
Choosing the right Christmas gift, that is original and not expected, is always a challenge. For this reason, in collaboration with Salectra, we have compiled a list of innovative, technological but above all green gifts, which help reduce the...
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...
A micro-garden 6000 km from Earth to grow fresh vegetables for future space missions. GREENCUBE, designed by an all-Italian scientific team, for the first time will be aboard a mini-satellite to be launched during the inaugural flight of VEGA-C,...
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...
To achieve the climate neutrality objectives, maximum "speed" in the use of CO2 capture and storage technology is required. This is the heart of the message with which, for the first time, the United Nations takes the field, renewing...
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...
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,...
