At the same time, many political leaders are slowing climate action. Can cities take a leading role and be laboratories for a new sustainable urban lifestyle? Benedikt Boucsein, professor for urban ...

As head of the Technical University of Denmark’s Space DroneCenter, Michael Linden-Vørnle is laying the foundations for his country to stand alongside Switzerland, the UK, France and Germany as ...

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 ...

Thanks to smartphones, planners are collecting data that will help improve traffic flows. Equally important is providing drivers with information that allows them to make better decisions. Gridlocked ...

The number of biomimicry patents, research articles and grants has increased more than fivefold since 2000. A Danish biotech start-up has developed a technology which, taking its cue directly from ...

The Borexino scientists are now presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive investigation of the fusion processes in the pp chain via neutrinos. They determined the interaction rates of the ...

In this era of digital healthcare and increasingly targeted and personalized treatments, medicine is undergoing a revolution. Now more than ever, cooperation between physicists, engineers, biologists ...

Urban heat islands are becoming a major source of concern. There are technical solutions, but in the long run cities should be designed differently. Streets swelter, entire neighbourhoods are ...

Converting electronic data into light on silicon chips is complicated, as silicon doesn’t emit light. Scientists from Germany have developed tiny nanowire lasers that can generate and route light on ...

“Most studies on long-distance commuters focus on high-ranking executives who live and work in different countries. But I wanted to look more specifically at families where both parents have to travel ...

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 generation depends on natural sources and ...