What's the real toll of plastics on the environment?
Plastics are useful, cheap, and extremely popular. Global demand for them has quadrupled in the last forty years and is expected to continue to rise, with negative consequences for the en...
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Naturaleza y Biodiversidad
What is 'marine snow' and how does it help the ocean to store carbon?
New research sheds light on how oceans absorb carbon dioxide.
Educación y habilidades
Students who 'productively fail' may learn more, finds study
Researchers have shown the positive effects of productive failure on learning outcomes.
These researchers 3D-print bridges with dramatically less waste and CO2
Millions of new buildings all over the world are being constructed with reinforced concrete, even though this type of construction generates large amounts of CO2 emissions.
How scientists have been looking inside Mars
Researchers at ETH Zurich working together with an international team have been able to use seismic data to look inside Mars for the first time. They measured the crust, mantle and core a...
Tecnologías emergentes
Have you heard of optoacoustic imaging? This is how it's saving lives
Artificial intelligence can improve the quality of optoacoustic imaging, researchers report.
Acción climática
Sensors watch the Matterhorn for crumbling rock and cracking ice
The summer heatwave of 2003 triggered a rockfall that shocked both researchers and the general public: 1,500 cubic meters of rock broke away from the Hörnli ridge—a volume roughly equival...
Salud y sistemas de salud
This new method can create vascular stents that are 40 times smaller than previously possible
A new method for making malleable microstructures can produce vascular stents that are 40 times smaller than previously possible, researchers report.
Cuarta Revolución Industrial
Music could send WiFi passwords to your phone
Since the data are imperceptible to the human ear, they don’t affect listening experience. This could have interesting applications in hotels, museums, and department stores. For example,...
Naturaleza y Biodiversidad
This refinery mixes sunlight and air to create fuel
A new technology produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air.
Tecnologías emergentes
Human and robot collaboration is evolving timber construction
Digitalisation has found its way into timber construction, with entire elements already being fabricated by computer-aided systems. The raw material is cut to size by the machines, but in...
Cuarta Revolución Industrial
This mobile device can monitor child dehydration
A prototype mobile device shows promise for monitoring dehydration in children.
Tecnologías emergentes
Scientists can now create liquid fuel from solar energy
The sun’s energy is already being harnessed in various ways: whilst photovoltaic cells convert sun light into electricity, solar thermal installations use the vast thermal energy of the s...
Cuarta Revolución Industrial
Video: this electric car just set a world record
The grimsel electric racing car has broken the world record for acceleration by an electric car. The vehicle accelerated from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.513 seconds over a distance of less than 3...