BB: I think that cities will more and more act as counterparts to national policies. In the US, we see how dozens of cities work together to develop sustainable models (like clean energy goals) – even ...

The take-away Dams disrupt the ecosystems within and around rivers, reduce biodiversity and mess with water quality Solutions to make them more sustainable include using fish-friendly turbines or ...

Data correlation helps recognize pickpockets The term mobile banditry is used for international itinerant criminal groups, which are guilty of various crimes, including pickpocketing. They often do ...

The key tool for Copenhagen is the smartphone. In 2013, the city council commissioned a group of experts from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and various companies to look at the feasibility ...

The word “industrial” conjures images of cogs, pipes, smoke and metal, per–haps even robots busily assembling the latest product. What it does not evoke is nature. Yet with the number of biomimicry ...

The results substantiate the solar model “All in all, the results confirm our theoretical perceptions of what goes on inside the Sun,” says Prof. Stefan Schönert, Professor of Experimental ...

A future Biomedical Engineering Institute at l’X The Program is also part of a broader project to build a Biomedical Engineering Institute at École Polytechnique. The mission of this Institute will be ...

Streets swelter, entire neighbourhoods are transformed into baking ovens, and residents are left exhausted by stifling heat. “Higher temperatures in cities are an increasingly noticeable issue, ...

Speeding things up Data centres are scaling at a staggering rate, and on numerous fronts, to keep up with the rise in cloud computing demand. Every new generation of processor chip contains more ...

The first section of his book discusses how individuals’ pace of life can be used to analyze commuting patterns. The second describes the pace of life of around 8,000 people who commute between their ...

Electric heating could save CO2 emissions The German government has set a target of generating 80 percent of the country’s electric power with renewable sources by 2050. However, renewable energy ...

The take-away Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, predicted in 1965 a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit. This rhythm is now actually slowing down. Future ...