Esteban Tejedor
The entrepreneurial solution to reforest the forests
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Posted on July 27, 2022
Fernando Cervigón, founder of the NGO Trees4Humanity, has developed a system of biodegradable pots with which he has already planted 2 million trees; he wants to plant up to 100 million worldwide. In the midst of the chaos caused by the fires that devastate the forests now in summertime, a solution to reforest them has more importance than ever…
Read MoreThree paraplegics walk again one day after receiving an electronic implant
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Posted on February 11, 2022
Neuroscientists in Switzerland create a technology that enables people with spinal cord injuries to regain movement in a day. Three people who had been left paraplegic after motorcycle accidents have managed to get back on their feet. It has been thanks to a surgical intervention to implant 16 electrodes directly on his spinal cord…
Read MoreResearch suggests that most cases of multiple sclerosis could be prevented by stopping a well-known virus infection
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Posted on January 14, 2022
Multiple sclerosis (MS), a degenerative disease, could have an infectious origin…
Read MoreInvented a system to create fuel, literally, from the air
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Posted on November 8, 2021
Swiss engineers have devised a prototype that creates energy by combining atmospheric CO2 and water and that can be used to power airplanes. We are increasingly used to electric cars, solar panels and generally cleaner energy sources…
Read MoreA lamp that illuminates 45 days with half a litre of salt water
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Posted on September 24, 2021
Colombian designer Miguel Mojica, based in Valencia (eastern Spain), in collaboration with the renewable energy company E-dina and with Wunderman Thompson Colombia, has created a lamp that generates light for 45 days using only half a litre of salt water…
Read MoreUpcoming vaccines that help cure drug addiction by inhibiting its effects
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Posted on August 17, 2021
The fight against addiction is entering a phase never seen before: that of immunotherapy. A revolution that has been in the making for a decade and is finally beginning to bear fruit... Imagine a vaccine against cocaine. One prick and the addict becomes immune to the effect of the drug. Since you no longer feel euphoria or pleasure, consuming loses all incentive…
Read MoreYoung people from India create aloe vera batteries that do not pollute
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Posted on August 15, 2021
The first green and environmentally friendly 1.5V AA and AAA size batteries are being developed in Rajasthan, India. The Aloe Ecell company has succeeded in replacing the chemicals and environmentally harmful products in standard batteries with the electrolyte from the aloe vera plant…
Read MoreGreat news: just living peacefully is a reason to be happy
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Posted on July 26, 2021
I remember when I was in primary school, my Social Science teacher used to tell us interesting anecdotes. He once mentioned there was a popular saying, "No News is Good News". Well, it makes sense every time I watch the News on TV, or read a newspaper, they tell so much bad news! My mood is rarely better after watching or reading them…
Read MoreParkinson's patients successfully treated without surgery
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Posted on July 5, 2021
Spanish researchers confirm the efficacy of a cutting-edge treatment that allows a minimally invasive approach to safely and effectively treat the motor manifestations of Parkinson's disease…
Read MoreSpanish scientists find for the first time the key molecule for the origin of life
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Posted on June 4, 2021
A molecule, called ethanolamine, that contains the four fundamental chemical elements (oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen), has been detected for the first time by researchers at the Center for Astrobiology (CAB), a Spanish organisation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) and the National Institute of Aerospace Technology of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The finding has occurred in a molecular cloud located in the center o…
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