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The Argan tree is a symbol of life in Morocco

The Argan tree is the Moroccan tree of life

A living example of perfect symbiosis between man and nature

Living and dying with allegiance to nature

While living in a techno-sphere

Environmental care: civic actors must be knowledgeable of the different choices their community will face

Local civic action against climate change

How can individuals use climate knowledge to enact change within communities?

Oxford University: universities will be the new training centers of universal wisdom

Future of universities

The Princonser method and innovation in research

Human being posing as a monkey while wearing a suit

Monkeys, mediocracy, and memetics

Infinite is the number of fools

Teal can be seen at close range at RSPB Lodmoor © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Birdwatching by the sea side

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Lodmoor in Weymouth

Solar power is one of the tools that can be immediately put to large scale use

The path to ecological prosperity

A fast solar response to the accelerating climate catastrophe

The fascinating world of Quantum Computing

Hello “quantum world”

Are you interested in developing applications with real quantum computers?

Scientists from the USA published a report of assemblies of heart and skin cells that replicated kinematically

Artificial life

Strange robots made from embryonic stem cells

The most efficient EV on the market emits 160g CO2/km (the least efficient 310g) while charging in Poland

Can electric vehicles steer us from energy storms?

Conditions for sustainable cars

Nuclear mushroom cloud

Powerful nuclear power

Balancing the risks and rewards

Rosy starling flock beginning murmuration, Bhigwan, Maharashtra (India) © Ashish Kothari

Does nature play?

Rebuilding our relationship with the Earth

Ancient people believed that entering the Underworld without reverence would be dangerous

Mining the sacred

Questions for a sustainable relationship with the Earth

Premature deaths due to fossil fuel combustion were estimated at 10.2 million persons in 2012

The forgotten war that nobody mentions

Air pollution by fossil fuels is a tragedy killing thousands

Quantum computing

Quantum computing a relational database

What is into that circle?

Without a shadow of a doubt, it can be said that all animals possess the property of consciousness

The Cambridge Declaration on consciousness

All animals can experience it but at a different level

Brent Goose in flight © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Wild Geese and waders in Essex

Birdwatching in Two Tree Island

Omicron variants have become predominant, causing as much as 98% of all new Covid-19 cases in the USA

Omicron subvariants' predominance

BA.1 and BA.2 are causing more infections but less severe symptoms of Covid-19

Some countries locking people up for being unvaccinated

I wanted to take Covid seriously

Try as I might, it just wasn’t working

The Web Summit 2022 in returned to Lisbon

Tech companies to watch out for

4 cool startups I found at the Web Summit

Green energy: a transition to renewable energy sources can provide both economic growth and ecological improvement

Building the new green republic

Individually and collectively, the ecological transformation is in our hands

The measurement of one strongly correlated particle has a direct effect on the other, regardless of the distance between them

Wormholes, tunnelling, and entanglement intertwined world

A scale-space description

Microbes can now be designed beyond traditional uses, through fermentation, to produce many other forms of proteins and flours

Eating microbes

Scientific breakthroughs offer myriad solutions to the global food crisis

Some distinguished scientists argue that one day it may be possible to replace the human mind with all its functions with a machine

Despite great optimism emulating the mind will not, almost certainly never, be possible

Breathing clean air: climate change impacts negatively on social and environmental determinants of health, such as air quality

Climate change intensifies health risks

Stronger public health systems and individual awareness are key to saving lives

Traditionally, ransomware spreads throughout a network

Ransomware attacks

Facts, prevention and response

The digital sector already produces much more C02 than aviation pre-covid

Reconciling 5G and sustainability in Brussels

A sensible policy for a regional government

Regular exercise is an example of primary prevention

Preventive healthcare

Three levels of prevention to improve wellbeing and reduce medical costs

Satellites: types include surveillance, weather, communications and military satellites used for spying

Omnipresent 'big eyes'

How long until mass surveillance destroys our freedom, privacy and democracy?

Boys are four times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism

Calming behavior in children with autism and ADD

A free, EMR-reduction protocol

Smart homes: home retrofits with the highest energy savings objectives are considered 'deep retrofits'

How to combat future energy price increases

Let's start with an energy diagnosis

Most flood-control dams were built to be reliable for about 50 years

Time to retreat

We built dams to protect us from danger; now many of them are the danger

Poincare was first to realize that there is no simple solution to the system of 3-body motion in Newtonian dynamics

On the limits of the deterministic description of motion

The uncertainty relation

Events in Science & Technology

Pratt & Whitney (Canada) PT-6A-20. Courtesy of British Columbia Aviation Museum

Pratt & Whitney (Canada) PT-6A-20

Permanent event at the British Columbia Aviation Museum in Sidney, Canada

Exhibition Nano- and Biotechnology. Courtesy of Deutsches Museum

Exhibition Nano- and Biotechnology

Permanent event at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany

IBM 1401 Demo Lab. Courtesy of Computer History Museum

IBM 1401 Demo Lab

Permanent event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, United States

Underground Adventure. Courtesy of Field Museum

Underground Adventure

Permanent event at the Field Museum in Chicago, United States

Natural History. Courtesy of Royal BC Museum

Natural History

Permanent event at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, Canada

Quagga & Dodo. Courtesy of Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

Permanent event at the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel in Basel, Switzerland

Hunting trophy hall. Courtesy of Museum of Zoology

Hunting trophy hall

Permanent event at the Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania

Hall of North American Wildlife. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Hall of North American Wildlife

Permanent event at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, United States

Body Worlds: Pulse. Courtesy of California Science Center

Body Worlds: Pulse

Permanent event at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, United States

Science in the Park. Courtesy of Museum of Science

Science in the Park

Permanent event at the Museum of Science in Boston, United States

Paper technology. Courtesy of German Museum of Technology

Paper technology

Permanent event at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin, Germany

Atlantic Indo Pacific. Courtesy of Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History

Atlantic Indo Pacific

Permanent event at the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest, Romania

The Garden Lounge. Courtesy of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

The Garden Lounge

Permanent event at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, United States

Creative World. Courtesy of California Science Center

Permanent event at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, United States

Beautiful Science. Courtesy of The Huntington

Beautiful Science

Permanent event at The Huntington in San Marino, United States

Evolution in Action. Courtesy of Museum für Naturkunde

Evolution in Action

Permanent event at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany

Sulfur Dioxide Monitoring Station. Courtesy of Science Nord

Sulfur Dioxide Monitoring Station

Permanent event at the Science Nord in Sudbury, Canada

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