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Researchers discover how charcoal can decontaminate wastewater
A group of researchers has discovered that digestate helps decontaminate water, creating a win-win situation: digestates are no longer an environmental problem and can be given a sustainable economic use.
10/07/2024
Tungsteno
What is the White House doing on top of a skyscraper?
In 2010, Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya commissioned a replica of the White House to be built atop a skyscraper. The high-rise mansion features a garden, swimming pool, gym and even a helipad. But the one thing that remains unclear is whether it will ever have residents.
01/07/2024
Concesiones
“We use state-of-the-art science to understand items from 1,500 years ago”
Marcos Martinón-Torres, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and a world-renowned archaeologist and researcher, applies cutting-edge techniques to our archaeological findings at Rumichaca-Pasto project in Colombia.
27/06/2024
Concesiones
Ruta 78: Artificial intelligence applied to traffic enhancement
We are applying Artificial Intelligence with the startup Valerann to support traffic management on the San Antonio – Santiago (Chile) highway. This pilot project aims to implement new tools to positively impact the operation of our road P3, enhance road safety, increase the attractiveness of the P3 and increase the quality of assistance and interventions on the road.
25/06/2024
Tungsteno
Neri Oxman, the silkworm “whisperer”
How can humans and members of other species such as silkworms collaborate in the construction of objects, products and buildings? This is one of the questions that architect and designer Neri Oxman, founder of a renowned research group at the MIT Media Lab, is trying to answer.
25/06/2024