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  • Brexit: A ban on European research centers

    Lobbying the European Commission to stay with the European research agencies and centers currently based in the UK has already started. Following the Brexit decision, an appetizing opportunity has opened up, and although Article 50 of the EU Treaty has not yet been activated and the situation is unclear, states and cities are trying to…

  • How Blockchain technology can transform the electricity sector

    Technology Blockchain is an ingeniously simple protocol that allows transactions to be simultaneously anonymous and secure. It eliminates the need for a central authority to act as an intermediary to support each transaction, and with this can replace less efficient administrative systems. The blockchain serves to support Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but beyond that it…

  • Video: A question of angle

    French-Tunisian artist eL Seed stunned the world with a mural painted on 50 buildings in Cairo’s Manshiyat Nasser neighborhood, a neighborhood associated with The trash. The purpose was not to beautify the neighborhood, but to change the perception of a community by looking at it from another angle.

  • An interactive map to calculate renewable energy production

    For those who are interested in installing solar panels on a roof, or even a wind turbine, estimating in advance the amount of energy that will be generated can be a problem. The interactive web tool Renewables.ninja, developed by researchers at Imperial College London and from ETH Zürich, aims to make it easier to predict…

  • The Internet of Things will be without batteries or it will not be

    The promise of the Internet of Things depends on future developments, and some of the most important will be seen in the field of energy. The enormous multitude of sensors and connected objects that will continuously communicate with each other will need to have energy autonomy, and not depend on battery recharges at all times….

  • The revolution of the Sicilian countryside

    Sicily’s farmers are re-growing the “ancient grains”, the local cereal seeds, using traditional methods and the island’s ancient agricultural wisdom. With this, according to the newspaper La Repubblica, They are once again rebuilding the landscape and recovering the biodiversity of the Sicilian countryside, in the face of the monoculture techniques of multinationals, which seek uniformity…

  • EGA Master, innovation award

    EGA Master from Alava has become the first hand tool manufacturing company to obtained the Innovative SME seal from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The family business, installed in the Jundiz industrial estate in Vitoria-Gasteiz, provides services to world leaders in sectors such as the automotive, aeronautical and oil sectors, exporting more than 90%…

  • The first ‘superblock’ in Barcelona

    The plan for “superblocks” in Barcelona, ​​with which the aim is to transform the mobility of the Catalan capital and return up to 70% of the street space to pedestrians, will be launched next Monday, September 5 with its first pilot experience, as reported by La Vanguardia. The first superblock, which will be inaugurated in…

  • The Nobel Prize in Economics defends universal basic income

    The idea that all citizens have access to a universal basic income, or the right to a minimum guarantee of income, are increasingly present in the global public debate, and in some parts of the planet universal basic income is beginning to be glimpsed as a real possibility, becoming part of the debate. Finland plans…

  • The American Downtown reemerges as a walkable space

    The American dream has been synonymous for decades with large family houses with gardens and two garages, perfectly aligned in their “suburbs” or peripheral urbanizations, a model that entails dependence on the car as the only means of transportation. However, urban sprawl seems to be in the doldrums. According to a study by Smart Growth…