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  • The most secure messaging app

    Amnesty International has put together a ranking of the 11 companies that run the most popular instant messaging apps, based on how they protect users’ privacy and freedom of expression. Facebook’s apps – WhatsApp and Messenger –, with 2 billion users, top the list for their use of encryption, though it also delves into the…

  • Video: How to make attractive cities

    It is not a mystery why we like some cities more than others. Starting from the identification of what makes a city more pleasant for us, the School of Life promotes a manifesto with six fundamental principles to recover the art of making attractive cities.

  • Solar energy to supply drinking water

    The startup Zero Mass Water has developed a new type of solar panel – called Source – that absorbs water from the air, make it drinkable, and, according to the company, supply the daily needs of a family of four. The technology, which has been echoed by Fast Company, is part of the efforts to…

  • drones to save lives

    Rwanda has commissioned the world’s first regular drone delivery system to supply bags of blood, plasma and coagulants to 21 transfusion centers in the west of the central African country, where it is difficult to reach on time by road. The 15 drones that are part of the system automatically fly up to 150 kilometers…

  • Luminescent paths for cyclists and pedestrians

    The Polish town of Lidzbark Warminski has inaugurated a for pedestrians and cyclists whose pavement glows at night, combining sustainable mobility with energy efficiency. The road is being paved with blue phosphors that absorb sunlight during the day and are capable of releasing it at night for a period of 10 hours. The type of…

  • Basque patent to recycle 100% carbon fiber

    The use of carbon fiber composites has increased considerably in in recent years due to its combination of properties similar to those of many metals with greater lightness, and it is expected to continue to grow exponentially in the manufacture of high value-added products such as aircraft, wind turbine blades, or automobiles. Faced with the…

  • Open data to stop deforestation

    In 2013, Matthew Hansen, of the University of Maryland, and his team produced, from satellite imagery, the first high-resolution global maps showing where parts of the globe are growing or growing. disappearing trees. These images were used to detect large-scale patterns, such as that Indonesia had almost caught up with Brazil in the destruction of…

  • How pollutes the sea in each laundry

    More than 700,000 microscopic plastic fibers are released in each cycle of washing machines, with many of them overtaking sewage plants and reaching rivers and oceans, according to a study by the University of Plymouth. The research team studied what happens when different synthetic materials are washed in domestic washing machines, with different combinations of…

  • Video: Horizontal Lisbon

    How to popularize bicycle mobility in a city with steep slopes? Based on a topographical examination, the architecture and urban intervention studio BSLX devised a network of cycle paths for Lisbon, the capital characterized as the “city of 7 hills”.

  • The most innovative universities

    The Reuters agency has prepared and presented the ranking of 100 Most Innovative Universities in the World, a list that aims to reflect which are the academic institutions that do the most for the advancement of science, the development of new technologies and the stimulation of the economy. Based on empirical data from patent filings…