Tech innovations and Startups

Agriculture & food
Plant genetic resources are key to the future of global food security
Plant genetic resources are a heritage we must preserve at all costs. They are essential to face the growing threats to global food security: population growth, climate…
Editorial Team•30 April 2025

Energy
Fraunhofer ISE cuts silver use in…
Thanks to copper-based metallization, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy…
Editorial Team•30 April 2025

Energy
Fully organic solar cells: efficiency doubles
Thanks to a transparent polymer electrode and a new lamination method, fully…
Editorial Team•29 April 2025

Tech innovations and Startups
BMW designs autonomous driving for factory
BMW Startup Garage joins forces with two young technology companies - Seoul Robotics and Embotech -…
20 July 2022

Water
Green hydrogen from waste water, if energy meets water safety
Creating a distributed infrastructure of small-scale, wastewater-capable electrolysers could make green hydrogen production more economical and…
19 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
All-perovskite tandem photovoltaics, towards mass production
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a prototype 12.25 m2 module with a…
18 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
From AquiPor recycled bricks that filter pollutants from rainwater
AquiPor technology creates porous tiles for the floor, which allow rainwater to pass through, retaining the…
15 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Almost invisible solar cell arrives from Tohoku University
A group of Japanese researchers has created a solar cell with Schottky junction, which allows the…
14 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Nanoracks’ new space waste disposal solutions
Nanoracks is developing a system that will improve the collection and disposal of ISS space waste…
14 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
From nzeb to H-ZEB: the first hydrogen building inaugurated in Benevento
The H-ZEB hydrogen building is the first in Europe to host a micro-generator powered by pure…
11 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Solar beer, France tests innovative agrivoltaic for hops
The project, carried out by Q Energy France in the Loire, combines the production of solar…
8 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Bacterial biobattery produces electricity for weeks
Engineers at Binghamton University have developed a battery containing three layers of different species of bacteria,…
5 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
UK: a new perovskite ink for a very thin photovoltaic
From a group of researchers at the University of Surrey, a new approach to the large-scale…
5 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Here is Apricale, the hydrogen hypercar designed by Pininfrina
The British Viritech presented at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the first car in the world…
1 July 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
PET-like biopolyester created from agricultural waste
EPFL scientists demonstrated the direct transformation of inedible lignocellulosic sugars into a plastic precursor