Science and Technology

It would be quite appropriate for a college professor to assume students know that a tree is alive and a rock is not. Or would it? By Beth Daley For several summers, I have had the pleasure of teaching biology…

Before attempting to provide a response to the question posed about what could be a possible digitalisation agenda to guarantee the Human Right to education, and to enter into the specific subject of the relationship between digital technologies and education,…

The researchers plan to miniaturise the equipment, which currently weighs around 18 kilograms, as well as protect the electronic circuits against the effects of solar radiation and microgravity. NASA researchers, in collaboration with Torch Technologies and Aeva Inc, have developed…

The incessant flow of information has us on the verge of total scepticism. The world is in the midst of an underhand struggle, where there is no fire on the front lines and no victims to be seen falling. It…

Researchers in Canada have discovered fossils of some of the earliest forms of life on Earth, dating back some 4.28 billion years. An international group of scientists claim to have found in a fossil rock the oldest signs of life…

On 11 February this year, the 1550 workers of the Japanese multinational Bridgestone in Argentina received the first half of last year’s “profit sharing” bonus. They will receive about $6,000 each when they receive the second payment on 11 May.…

When the Human Genome Project announced that they had completed the first human genome in 2003, it was a momentous accomplishment – for the first time, the DNA blueprint of human life was unlocked. But it came with a catch – they…

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Clarke’s Third Law, Profiles of the Future, Arthur C. Clarke Throughout human history, discoveries and inventions have always had a great impact on the way we know and live. But they have…

Launching of the IHPS The IHPS is based on the current of thought New Universalist Humanism, which emerged in the 1970s from the intellectual and social work of Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (1938-2010). Systemic forecasting refers to the prospection of…

In addition to the casualties and damage caused by wars, which mainly affect people’s lives and the environment, information must also be included among the casualties and damage caused by wars. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to come across contradictory,…