Category: 3. Tech

Humans depend on fossil fuels as their primary energy source, especially in transportation. However, fossil fuels are both unsustainable and unsafe, serving as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and leading to adverse respiratory…

It has been estimated that in 2040 a quarter of the world’s children will live in regions where clean and drinkable water is lacking.

The desalination of seawater and the purification of wastewater are two possible methods to alleviate this, and…

One of the major challenges related to space exploration is the development of production technologies capable of exploiting the few resources available in extra-terrestrial environment.

Laser 3D printing of lunar dust may be the answer to such…

Some satellites are only slightly larger than a milk carton.

This type of construction is now to be given a further simplified architecture and thus become even lighter and more cost-effective: This is the goal of the teams of Professors Sergio…

To truly understand an animal species is to observe its behavior and social networks in the wild.

With new technology, researchers are able to track tiny animals that divide their time between flying around in the sky and huddling together in…

If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge range of organic compounds, from fuels to drugs, that are too expensive to ship from Earth.

University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley…

The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their pee.

European researchers have found that it could be used as a plasticizer in the…

A quantum internet could be used to send unhackable messages, improve the accuracy of GPS, and enable cloud-based quantum computing.

For more than twenty years, dreams of creating such a quantum network have remained out of reach in large part…