The Key To Old AgeLong seen as a fatality or the mere expression of the accumulation of oxidation and genetic damage, aging is increasingly understood as...
Hottest On RecordThe Copernicus Climate Change Service, created by the EU, has announced that summer 2024 was the hottest on record globally and for Europe. Together with...
The Chinese E-Commerce MarketplaceWhen talking about online marketplaces, the dominant company seems to be Amazon, with its astonishing multi-decade growth and its $1.8T market capitalization. But this...
Propulsion Without Propellant?Since the very first V2 rockets in World War 2, the base concept for the propulsion of rockets has been to expel high-speed gases...
Volkswagen At The CrossroadsVolkswagen has an 87-year-long history that led it to become the second-largest automaker in the world by sales, with 9.24 million cars sold...
Graphene & BatteriesBattery technology is quickly evolving, with dozens of competing alternative chemistries challenging the dominance of lithium-ion batteries, whose discovery was rewarded by a Nobel...
Intel’s StrugglesIntel has been in the financial news headlines recently, but for all the wrong reasons. In fact, INTC just experienced its worst price drop in...
The New Wonder Drug: SemaglutideSemaglutide is quickly shaping up to become the wonder drug of the decade. It was initially developed as an anti-diabetic medication under...
Life Among The Stars?Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. ClarkeSince the first...
Greening MarsScience fiction writers and scientists have long dreamed of how to transform Mars into a lush and green planet, a process called terraformation. This would be...
New Methods For Drug DiscoveryDiscovering new drugs has become increasingly expensive and complex in the last few decades, with new therapies costing more than a billion...
Surprise Chinese RestrictionsIn August 2024, China announced limits to antimony exports “in the name of national security”. This brought a lot of attention to a rarely discussed...
From Solar To PhotonicsPerovskites are a new type of material increasingly investigated for its potential in solar energy. Semiconductor crystals could be even more powerful at...
Rising WindSolar energy, especially photovoltaic, is a driving force for switching to renewable energy and may even become the dominant one in the future.Still, solar energy...
Can Mars Be Tamed?Recent scientific news reveals that Mars might not have to stay a permanently hostile place to life and human settlement.While the idea of...