Sacyr's Blog

For years, the sun, wind and water have been used to generate electricity. Now researchers in Japan are experimenting with a new renewable energy source: snow. The plan is to exploit temperature differences to help ease energy supply problems.

More than 140 years after the foundation stone was laid, the Sagrada Familia is still a work in progress. Here we take a look at the construction of this mega-structure, which contains many references to nature and has been built using more than 50 different types of stone.

A team of engineers has developed a robot that can jump over moats, climb walls or escape from a cage, all with the aid of a magnetic field. Yet despite its enormous potential in the fields of medicine and electronics, it is not yet fully autonomous and has some limitations.

Most fungal species cannot reproduce at human body temperature. But this could change with climate change. We investigate how global warming affects these organisms and whether they could actually cause a pandemic like the one in the series ‘The Last of Us’.