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An estimated 2 billion people consume insects worldwide, and yet the appeal – and commercial availability – of this foodstock remains very limited, especially in the West. With more than 2,000 edible insect species on this planet, packed with high-quality protein, amino acids, vitamins, calcium, zinc, iron, oils, antioxidants and…

Aquí Nos Cuidamos is a project of the nonprofit Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) that promotes COVID-19 prevention and the well-being of vulnerable and marginalized communities in Puerto Rico through a culturally relevant multimedia education, community engagement, science and solidarity. To read the speech in Spanish, please click here. / Para leer el…

Several studies attempt to unravel the causes of excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in schizophrenia. The pitfall is the loose control of the exact target cells keeping an excessive level of abstraction. Enrico Patrono argues that implementing microfluidic chips called Brain-on-a-Chip, an innovative in-vitro-silico model for neural circuits allows high temporal and spatial…

Roman Fasel obtained his PhD in Physics in 1996 from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and joined Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, after post-doctoral research fellowships at La Trobe University (Melbourne) and the Fritz-Haber-Institute (Berlin). He is the head of the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory of Empa,…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Nathalie Picqué, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Physical Sciences. She talked about her role as a research group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics…

CREATE is a unique applied research centre that develops practical solutions to foster the economic and social integration of refugees through education and employment. CREATE has developed innovative Virtual Career Clinics based on a mentor/mentee model that support over 150 people each year to access employment. Working in close partnership…

Coronalogy is a 40-day long exercise undertaken by a group of communicators to introduce one topic related to COVID-19 pandemic per day, during the initial days of nationwide lockdown in India. One topic was chosen per day and was introduced in a 150-word long article. This article was published in…

The planar robot comprises multiple carriers moving contactless in six dimensions on individual paths, transporting and positioning goods with high speed and accuracy. Based on smart AI control and high-precision sensing, our Permanent Magnetic Drive technology will change industrial production: huge payloads are handled efficiently with low energy and without…

While we know from astrophysical observations that dark matter exists, its nature remains a mystery and its detection in the laboratory would be a major breakthrough. While the discovery of dark matter is still outstanding, in 2019 the experiment observed the decay of Xenon-124 atoms for the first time, with…