Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has decided to coat the 12 Boeing 777s in its fleet with a polymer adhesive film. This new surface technology will reduce the fuel consumption of the sub-fleet by...
Although the name of Wall-E might initially conjure up the image of the little cleaning robot from the eponymous animated film, it is also the name of a prefabricated module made of composites with a ...
An interview with Dana Mosora, co-founder of the Asase Foundation in Ghana. Asase, through the "closing the loop" project, encourages women to create social enterprises for recycling plastic waste....
The French start-up Héole has come up with the idea of developing organic photovoltaic sails to produce green energy to power boats. And it intends to make this dream a reality during the next Route d...
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The A7L space suit: The most famous space suit of all time
It was the space suit used to take Man’s first steps on the moon, without which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would never have appeared in our history books. Although it is beginning to suffer the ra...
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An interview with Françoise Fournier, tensile architecture market manager at Serge Ferrari, one of the world leaders in flexible composite materials....
An interview with Dana Mosora, co-founder of the Asase Foundation in Ghana. Asase, through the "closing the loop" project, encourages women to create social enterprises for recycling plastic waste....
On the upside, plastics bring many innovations in terms of technical performance, comfort and environmental benefits, most of which are largely unknown. On the flip side, too much plastic is discarded...
An interview with Kumar Varoon Agrawal, tenure-track Assistant Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Head of the Laboratory of Advanced Separations (LAS)....
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