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From Tofu to Green Energy: China’s Water-Based Batteries
Qualche mese fa, su Matter to Life, avevamo raccontato una batteria costruita attorno a ingredienti sorprendentemente semplici: sale e glicerina. L’idea era che la ricerca sulle batterie non dovesse necessariamente inseguire materiali sempre più esotici, ma potesse partire anche da sostanze economiche, poco tossiche e facilmente reperibili. ( Da sale e glicerina una nuova chimica…
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The Future Is Devouring the Present
We are constantly talking about the future of innovation. We fund it, plan it, put it into project titles, strategic plans, and press releases. We build roadmaps, missions, impact indicators, and criteria complicated enough to look scientific even when they are not. And then we forget about the present. To prove that a system is reliable, we are required to comply with…
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Life Needs Rhythm: The THz Dance of Peptide Nanotubes
One thing often recommended in CPR training is to keep the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive in mind: its beat, just over 100 beats per minute, falls within the recommended range for maintaining the correct compression rate during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is a curious example, but it points to something much more serious: in biology, rhythm…