Science and Technology

A breakthrough in the fight against pollution. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in India have developed a sustainable hydrogel that removes microplastics from water by binding them and breaking them down under ultraviolet light. This hydrogel consists of…

Celebrating Space Day By Lucia Irurozki After 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the most popular person on the planet. Everyone wanted to greet him, if not touch him, at least see him from a distance. Different countries invited the first…

Chile has become a leader in Latin America in using renewable energies, especially solar energy. Its privileged natural resources put the country in an enviable position to transform its energy matrix. But the boom in solar projects is outpacing the…

There is an urgent need to move from an instrumental use of AI to new didactics that problematize the context, accompanied by a focus on building learning communities. It was in November 2022 that the new version of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5…

(Image by Rafael Edwards)Brazilian researchers are completing the development of a climate prediction tool that could revolutionize the world by showing climate trends for the next few decades. The initiative called the Tupã project aims to develop a technological tool…

by Genevieve Balance Kupang The International Association of Research Ethics Across Disciplines, Inc. (IAREAD, Inc.) hosted an innovative webinar,  “Application of AI for Research & Accreditation” on March 18th and 19th, 2024. This training workshop explored the transformative potential of…

Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an archaeologist, go to graduate school, how do you plan to…

This week in Beijing, the “3rd International Forum on Democracy: the Shared Value of Humanity” featured four panels with fifty-five presentations by professors and politicians of different nationalities. This event alone broadens the criteria for democracy beyond the copyright that…

Yesterday, Niu Qingbao, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Chile, held his annual press conference on the sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also known as the “Two Sessions”.…

More than a century ago, the famous Russian scientist, great dreamer, and realist, known as the “father of cosmonautics”, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, wrote: “The planet is the cradle of intelligence, but one cannot always live in a cradle”. Mankind left its…