The Crispr gene scissors have an enormous potential to cure diseases, but one problem is that it sometimes makes changes to the wrong part of the patient's genome.But now researchers have developed a method that makes Crispr 4,000 times less likely to cut the...
As cryptocurrency adoption continues, the use of cash as a form of payment continues to decline. At the same time, the interest in blockchain technology and its application in issuing electronic money continues to grow. After all, governments realize that electronic...
Unfortunately, the fashion industry is one of the biggest polluters on our planet, and it can account for up to ten percent of the global greenhouse pollution. The fashion industry also produces 92 million tons of waste, and 79 trillion liters of water are used each...
Skyscrapers, these vast buildings like Burj Khalifa, Taipei 101, Petronas Towers, and Empire State Building, to mention a few, are usually built with traditional raw materials such as steel and concrete. However, there is a new – or should we say old –...
Ever since the advent of flight, speed has been of great fascination for many. For commercial airlines, the rate was initially essential to compete with rail. But the military saw the importance of speed to enable bombers to evade fighter interception. And...
Electric cars are becoming increasingly popular and this also increases the need to be able to recycle electric car batteries in a good manner. An interesting method for this is a combination of so-called thermal pretreatment and hydrometallurgy, and now researchers...