The scientific discoveries of 2018 – Part 2, Helping planet Earth
The second part of the article originally written by me in Bulgarian and published in the Bulgarian E-zine Dnevnik.
Category: Tech
Nanotechnology – a silver bullet against food and packaging waste?
Now that we made food and packaging waste become such a major public heath and environmental problem, lets see what we can do to solve it.
Building new smart cities or dressing up the old ones – do both with greenovation
What do we do today around the world to make our cities more energy sustainable? Read a summary in this blog post.
Xenon – the miracle molecule
Noble gases are the chemical equivalent of a teenage kid quietly sitting in its room and not saying much in the school cafeteria, while its friends go party like there's no tomorrow, and then grows up to be the most promising Student Government President and an amazing scientist. When we get tired of big bangs on atomic scale and fireworks on molecular level, it's time to look up the "quiet guy" and see what knowledge for the micro- and macro-universe he can give us. Go, Xenon!
A single molecule DNA dipole (The tinkerers of DNA, part 3)
When #silicon is not good enough anymore - go for #DNA.
Creating alien life (The tinkerers of DNA, part 2)
In the first post of this double we’ve already established that scientist sometimes manage to surprise even themselves with how far they can push the boundaries of science and technology. As if creating nano sized drug-delivery machines and computer chips based on bent at will DNA structures wasn’t enough, we…
The smiling DNA (The tinkerers of DNA, part 1)
Whether we like it or not, and whether we understand it entirely or not, we’ve become incredibly good at tinkering with DNA – the very molecules that make us what we are. Ever since an acidic compound was discovered in the nucleus of the cell in 1869, and called nuclein,…
Traveling back in time to discover the machines of the future
Psychology from the 1920s, 1960 statistics, today’s smartphones and tomorrow’s energy-efficient houses. As surprising as it might be, the common denominator of all these things is the Artificial Intelligence. Long before AI was an official research topic (for the VUB this was some 36 years ago), researchers were already unknowingly…