Ecology
Can Spider Webs Really Stop a Train?
Daphné VAN RIET After having been bitten by a radioactive spider, Spider-Man got superpowers! He […]
High Tech
High Tech
Infrared Vision: Let’s Decipher Supergirl’s Superpower
Supergirl a exactement les mêmes pouvoirs que Superman. Elle a une puissance et une vitesse surhumaines, une ouïe extraordinaire ainsi qu’une vision infrarouge. bref, elle voit les êtres vivants dans le noir. […]
Chemistry
How many helium-filled balloons do we need to lift a house like in Up?
Sarah THOMAS If you have ever seen the movie Up, you probably ask yourself a […]
Chemistry
Vibranium: does the powerful metal used by Avengers exist?
Sarah THOMAS Vibranium is a material you can find in Captain America’s shield or in […]
Biology
Is Human Hair as Strong as Rapunzel’s?
Laura TURCULET In Disney’s adaptation of Grimm’s fairy tale, Tangled, Rapunzel is imprisoned at the […]
Biology
GELLIGHT or the luminous gym session to treat heart disease
A light-sensitive slime is a new weapon that will be available to doctors to understand and help treat serious illnesses such as heart disease. Discover the GELLIGHT project. […]
Artistic
When the intelligence of plants is exploited by robots. Discover the Plant Fever exhibition at the Centre d’Innovation et de Design in Grand-Hornu.
Plants do not have a brain or nervous system like us. And yet, researchers show that they are gifted with intelligence. Defending themselves against aggression, finding their food, or communicating through their roots, these are all incredible elements that demonstrate the intelligence of plants.
But it is not only scientists who are interested in the plant kingdom. Artists too are amazed at their prowess. So much so that they are inspired by the intelligence of nature to create new, revolutionary, and breathtaking objects or tools. Plant Fever is an exhibition that bears witness to the power of plants… that human is trying to mimic. […]
Belgian inventors
Robert Cailliau, the forgotten co-inventor of www!
Two of them have developed the web: an Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee, and a brilliant Belgian scientist who has been forgotten, Robert Cailliau. How could we forget the name of a man behind the technology we use every day? Even the Britannica encyclopedia attributes the invention of the web to the English scientist, neglecting his Belgian colleague. […]
Chemistry
A filter designed by NASA to drink your urine!
For a space mission, you can’t take huge amounts of water. So you have to be inventive. And at NASA, they are. In their laboratory, they created a filter that purifies the wastewater in order to recover it. Yep, even her urine can be filtered for drinking. And the best is when a direct derivative of this technology (only for water) equips the gourds that you can take with you to school, to sports, to camp, on vacation abroad, and in even hiking… in short, everywhere! […]
Artificial intelligence
War Heritage Institute: the drone from yesterday to today
Drones, these devices recognizable among a thousand by the roar of the propellers, are not only used to take photos. This technology, developed for military purposes during the First World War, fulfilled many missions for the army, such as detecting humans or animals using an infrared camera, filming and transmitting what was happening in the field in real-time. […]