Every time you send a message, watch a video or make a video call, your data does not travel through the air or by satellite. It travels along the seabed. Behind almost all the internet you use there ...
For decades, launching a rocket was like buying a plane and throwing it in the bin after the first flight. Every space mission cost hundreds of millions of euros and most of that bill was the rocket i...
When you open the map on your phone to get somewhere, there is something you almost never think about: at that very moment, a network of dozens of satellites orbiting about 20,000 kilometres up is wor...
Just a decade ago, monitoring a crop field meant walking it on foot, covering kilometres of land under the sun to check whether a plant was sick, whether water was short or whether a pest was spreadin...
Your mind, the new remote control Imagine moving your computer cursor without touching the mouse. Or writing a message just by thinking it. This is not science fiction: there are already people doing ...
The robots exploring the ocean: the seabed we know worse than Mars We have sent rovers to Mars, photographed the moons of Jupiter and built telescopes that gaze at the edge of the universe. But 80% of...
When you open an app to check the weather or watch a video, you almost never think about where that data is processed. In most cases it travels to a huge data centre that may be thousands of kilometre...
When you put on a smartwatch in the morning, you are strapping a small laboratory to your wrist. It is no longer just for telling the time: it counts your steps, monitors your heart rate, measures how...
Imagine that your city, your factory or even your house had an exact digital clone that updates every second. A clone with which you can simulate what would happen if it rained a lot, if the power wen...
When you switch on your phone in the morning, you switch on a small miracle of modern engineering. Inside that shell there is not one computer but several, and they all live on a chip smaller than a f...
Every time we charge our phone, we set in motion a small chemical feat: storing electricity in the same space that fits a handful of rice. But that feat — the lithium batteries that fill everything to...
The problem: quantum computers and the key that will break Your entire digital life is protected by mathematical locks. When you shop online, when you chat on WhatsApp or when you access online bankin...
When we look at the sky at night, every star we see is, in reality, an enormous power plant. For millions of years, the Sun and all the other stars have produced their light thanks to a process called...
When we talk about robots, many people imagine metallic androids with a human appearance or giant machines on car assembly lines. But robotics has taken a huge turn in recent years: more and more robo...
There is an idea that has been floating around computing for decades: what if a computer worked more like a brain than a calculator? Neuromorphic chips are the most ambitious bet to achieve this. They...
There is a computer capable of doing, in seconds, calculations that would take the world’s best computers thousands of years. It is not a science-fiction promise: it already exists, it works, an...
Close your eyes and think about where your photos from the last trip are right now. On your phone? Well, not entirely. Your work documents, the music you listen to in the morning and even the series y...
The fridge that warns you the milk has run out. The thermostat that turns on the heating before you get home. The blind that goes up on its own at dawn. This is not science fiction: it is the Internet...
There is a technology that has been quietly slipping into our lives for years without us even noticing. It is in social media filters, in the maps that guide us as we walk, in video games and in the o...
When we talk about renewable energy, we almost always think of the sun and the wind. But there is another candidate that has been making a strong case for years and promises to solve one of the great ...
Can you imagine being able to test how a bridge withstands an earthquake without moving a single stone? Or anticipating when a turbine in a wind farm is going to break down before it fails? That is no...
You have probably talked to an artificial intelligence chat at some point and been left with your mouth open. It answers quickly, writes like a person and seems to understand exactly what you are aski...
Can you imagine charging your phone in five minutes and the battery lasting a whole week? Or an electric car that travels more than a thousand kilometres on a single charge, without fear of catching f...
When you send a message to a friend in another country, a video to a relative on the other side of the ocean, or make a video call with someone on another continent, you imagine that everything travel...
Did you know that the most powerful computer on the planet does not fit in a room, but in a need for almost laboratory-level cold? We are talking about the quantum computer, a machine that promises to...
Has it ever happened that you open Netflix “just to watch something quick” and an hour later you are still watching episodes? Or that Spotify suggests exactly that song you had been lookin...
Imagine getting into your car, telling it where you want to go and never touching the wheel again. The vehicle accelerates, brakes, turns and dodges obstacles on its own. It is no longer science ficti...
Imagine that one day you turn on your computer and, instead of your desktop, a red screen appears: all your files have been encrypted and, to recover them, you must pay a ransom in cryptocurrencies. I...
There are towns where fibre optics will never arrive, mountains without coverage and ships lost in the middle of the ocean. For all of them, the cable is not an option. The solution is not buried unde...
Imagine being able to manufacture an object at the press of a button. Not buying it in a shop or ordering it online, but “printing” it at home, like printing a document. That is what 3D pr...