Some time or other, when you open the maps on your phone and see that little blue dot marking exactly where you are, you’ve surely wondered: how does it know? There are no cables, nobody is trac...
Can you imagine that, before opening a new hospital, an entire building, or even a whole factory, there were already an exact copy of it where you could test everything without risking anything? That ...
A video loads in an instant, your house responds to a gesture from your phone and a car warns of a danger before you even see it. Behind many of these little everyday pieces of magic there’s a t...
Your electric car has run out of battery useful enough to drive, but that battery hasn’t died: it still has plenty of life ahead of it. What no longer serves to move a car can serve perfectly we...
When you hear “battery”, you probably think of your phone or your electric car. But storing energy for when it’s needed doesn’t have to involve chemicals. There’s a much ...
For decades, humanoid robots were a fairground attraction and a movie dream. Today, with far more capable artificial intelligence systems and more precise motors, more and more companies are taking th...
Cold weather arrives, and instead of getting home and shivering while the heating starts up, the temperature is already waiting for you ready. The blinds raise themselves at dawn, the lights turn on w...
When was the last time you changed the small card inside your phone? That tiny piece of plastic, the SIM card, has been the key connecting your phone to your operator for decades. Well: it’s abo...
Imagine ordering a pizza or a medicine and, instead of a delivery driver knocking on the door, you hear a buzz at the window. A small drone drops the order on your terrace and flies away. What a few y...
Imagine a burger that did not require raising, feeding or slaughtering any animal. It is not a magic trick or a decades-old novelty: it is lab-grown meat, also called cultivated meat or cellular meat....
Imagine a garden that needs no soil, does not depend on rain and fits in the basement or on the rooftop of any city. It is no longer a movie idea: vertical farms are challenging traditional agricultur...
Technology advances so fast that we barely have time to wear out a phone before the next one arrives. The result is a silent but gigantic problem: mountains of old devices gathering dust in a drawer o...