Here is the “StarCrete”, a material more resistant than concrete but made of potatoes, salt and Martian earth. Human life on Mars is far away. At the moment just the idea of sending a small team of astronauts around the planet is no small problem, let alone designing a full-fledged…

Recently, pellet beam propulsion seems to be the system put in the spotlight by NASA to take us, one day, out of the solar system in a very short time. The US space agency received a $175,000 grant to develop it and try to take it beyond the purely theoretical…

Raymond Kurzweil is 75 years old and throughout his life he was an inventor, a writer, a computer scientist and a futurist. He has dealt with artificial intelligence, transhumanism and technological singularity. He today believes that in just 7 years we will be able to reach the key to immortality…

It works by exploiting the characteristics of ceramic materials. It has low density, but never degrades. Perfect for storage systems. Not a day goes by without some new battery technology being announced. Until recently there were lithium-ion ones and little else. Today there is lithium metal, lithium iron phosphate, lithium…

The University of Stirling is proposing to use this blue mushroom to replace farms and what they do for the environment. Alastair Jump, an ecologist at the University of Stirling in the UK, is trying to resolve a very current conflict with a simple mushroom. Today the disastrous impact we…

«If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product», they told us. Well, that’s not the case anymore. The same technology that connects us, distracts us. The same technology that connects us controls us. And it divides, manipulates and polarizes us. It distracts us, it monetizes us: «If…

The Platonic values and the lack of them in today’s world. In the wake of the Pythagorean conception, Plato made the idea of the Good coincide in itself with the True and with the Beautiful at the summit of an immutable and perfect dimension beyond the sensible world: in an…

I’m sure you’ve heard that “a new paradigm is needed in physics”, and I agree with that. The thing is that these “new visions” are often against the materialist and casual principles of physics, the basis on which it has laid until one century ago. Why I say one-hundred years…