Ceramic pots for filtering water, techniques for solar cooking, wind turbines, breeding edible crickets: these are some of the low tech (or “low” technologies) documented by the Nomad of the Seas . A veritable “laboratory boat”, the Nomade des Mers has experimented and documented around fifty low tech boats around the world. After six years of travel and 25 […] … learn more→

Blake Lemoine could have been the hero of a science fiction film. Employed at Google, his mission was to ensure that LaMDA , a robot created to converse with humans (or chat bot), did not present biased comments to users and avoid sexist or racist comments, for example. But, over the course of his exchanges with artificial intelligence, the engineer […] … learn more→

READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into a computer? John Wilson We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units – therefore comparable to […] … learn more→

Winston Churchill said that criticism will not be pleasant, but it is necessary. However, it seems that current neuroscience points to the importance of developing another look. Neuroscience has found a negative effect of criticism on people, starting with self-criticism. We are continually judging ourselves and criticizing the people and systems of which we are a part. This […] … learn more→

As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?”. Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “Aside from the Higgs boson, which won the Nobel Prize, and a whole slew of new composite particles?”, I realise […] … learn more→

Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an astronomer, and this can almost be thought of as the first writing on the scientific method. We do not know who […] … learn more→

After following a white rabbit down a hole in the ground and changing sizes several times, Alice finds herself wondering “Who in the world am I?” This scene, from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” might resonate with you: In a world that’s constantly changing, it can be challenging to find your authentic self. I […] … learn more→

The last two years have been very difficult for businesses with some SMEs having no option other than to foldup. The restrictions that came with the Covid-19 pandemic meant that businesses could not meet their production and sales targets. This resulted in some going out of business completely. According to a study by the Federal […] … learn more→

Surely, when reading this article, there will be those who think if it is really necessary to dedicate a day to women and girls in science. Is it that our young women do not have the opportunity to choose the professional option they prefer? In fact, myself, when I was studying biology, I thought that the battle […] … learn more→

Human beings communicate with each other in two ways. The first is the same used by other animals: the emission of sound waves. However, these are slow and do not spread more than a few tens of meters due to the attenuation introduced by the air. That is why we have searched since ancient times for alternatives for […] … learn more→