File-sharing service WeTransfer increased its revenue by more than 25% in 2017. Creative people represent 75% of the platform’s 40 million monthly users. One of the few European file-sharing platforms ...

Dams disrupt the ecosystems within and around rivers, reduce biodiversity and mess with water quality Solutions to make them more sustainable include using fish-friendly turbines or lowering their ...

Flexible railway systems can offer cheaper and faster transport in greater quantities. Their potential is most promising in freight handling.

Fog catchers have been providing water to people in dry, mountainous regions for decades. Due to climate change, more regions get drier, pushing the need for this technology.

Fog catchers have been providing water to people in dry, mountainous regions for decades. Due to climate change, more regions get drier, pushing the need for this technology.

The digital revolution and the ability to process huge amounts of information have changed the way research is done. Here are three examples.

Since 2006, when Stockholm launched its congestion charge, traffic has decreased by around 20% – 5% above the target. A rise in shared vehicles might reduce the parking shortage, but that won’t get ...

Electric buses are an attractive solution, but keeping batteries charged remains a challenge. Universities are coming up with radical solutions for electric bikes and cars. “Peak car”. This phrase, ...

The most popular lists base their rankings on quantifiable data, including research output, income, numbers of student and faculty size. At least one list is now adding a more subjective element: ...

The energy consumption in data centres is growing by a factor of 1.7 per year. Photon-based circuits could replace microelectronic circuits, as they require 1,000 times less energy. The main challenge ...

Albert Einstein published pioneering works in which he explained that light energy is carried in quantum packets. He also anticipated the invention of the laser. The future lies in photonic computer ...

Replacing tractors, robots can cut a farm’s carbon footprint by 90%. They feed and spray only the plants that need it. Thanks to plant phenotyping, French researchers give farmers as much information ...