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The fascinating idea of transforming the arid Sahara desert into a sea has captivated the minds of engineers and visionaries for more than two centuries. Among the most striking proposals is the creation of a gigantic salt lake and the use of atomic bombs to achieve it.

Sacyr Engineering and Infrastructure in Chile is partnering with the geotechnical area of the Department of Engineering of the Universidad de la Santísima Concepción (UCSC) to develop a repository tool that digitizes the collected information from previous soil studies. This way, we get the information before excavating to see what the best approach to this process is.

A group of researchers has discovered that digestate helps decontaminate water, creating a win-win situation: digestates are no longer an environmental problem and can be given a sustainable economic use.

In 2010, Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya commissioned a replica of the White House to be built atop a skyscraper. The high-rise mansion features a garden, swimming pool, gym and even a helipad. But the one thing that remains unclear is whether it will ever have residents.

Marcos Martinón-Torres, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and a world-renowned archaeologist and researcher, applies cutting-edge techniques to our archaeological findings at Rumichaca-Pasto project in Colombia.