This is a premium article opened for you by our Premium Supporters. They support our work to spread fact-based optimism. If you also want to support us, you can read more here.In this article, the debate is embodied by three people: The today unknown but enormously...
In an attempt to find alternative power sources under the "no new coal" agenda, Zimbabwe has adopted plasma gasification (PG) of municipal solid waste to produce energy. South Korea is assisting the country in the project to embrace clean energy in the...
Modern cities planning has always been based on maximum mobility: to make any point reachable by everyone as quickly as possible. This seemed the key to making cities more liveable.The effect, however, was the opposite: workplaces, shopping centers, services have...
For many of us, clean clothes are something we often take for granted. However, for many people around the world, who don’t have electricity, it’s not. When Navjot Sawhney, a student at the University of Bath, volunteered in India he witnessed how people...
Mankind has a long tradition of predicting doomsday. But fortunately, despite predictions of nuclear war, epidemics, and asteroid strikes, no one has been right so far.Now, in 2021, when, despite the pandemic, we have a historically long life expectancy, low child...
A lot of us have at times wished for more endurable glass. Researchers have now managed to create a new type of glass that’s three times more resilient than normal glass and five times more fracture resistant. The team who developed this new type of glass was...