Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been quietly helping us for decades, with progress accelerating, 2023 will be remembered as a ‘big bang’ year. With the advent of generative AI, the technology has broken through in popular consciousness and is shaping public discourse, influencing investment and economic activity, sparking geopolitical competition, and changing human activities from …
Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar PhD in the Health Innovation Laboratory, Lima, Peru Pablo Tsukayama Climate factors can play a role in the spread of tropical diseases — now a Peruvian researcher is developing tools to better understand those relationships. Dr Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, a researcher from the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Alexander von Humboldt” at the Universidad Peruana …
Bamboo Construction Blue Temple Engineers and architects are now using of bamboo construction know-how from prefabricated housing in Myanmar to build a much large structure in Madagascar. Raphaël Ascoli, founder of Yangon-based architecture design studio Blue Temple explains that he was working in Japan as an architect for a corporate design firm, before quitting and …
Brazilian researcher Sara Duarte (left) at a field experiment in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico in … [+] July of 2023. Enrique García A Brazilian researcher is working with Mexican farmers to test soils using biochar: a carbon-rich material showing promise in increasing water retention and fertility. Biochar is a porous, solid material produced in an oxygen-poor …
Biochar produced in Bolivia from forestry waste ExoMad Green Bolivian researchers are taking forestry waste that otherwise would have been burnt and turning it into a carbon-dense product useful to farmers. When biomass (like wood chips) decompose naturally, they emit the potent greenhouse gases CO2 and methane but by creating biochar in a low-oxygen environment, …
Adult Bee Assassin Bug of the Genus Apiomerus getty A Colombian researcher has spent years scouring museum collections around the world to help answer a big question: how many different kinds of assassin bugs are there? The New World resin bugs (assassin bugs from the tribe Apiomerini) in the genus Apiomerus, use sticky plant resin …