“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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Where’s gender in the climate change negotiations? The Gender Climate Tracker app and platform answers this question with the latest...
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Satellite Archeology is all about perspective. From the outer edges of the planet’s atmosphere, where sky meets space, the view...
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Condom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
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US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
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The next big thing in space is really, really small. The SunCube FemtoSat is a fully functioning spacecraft equipped with a camera, radio,...
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Rail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
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Hundreds of students from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are signed-up to Soliya Connect,...
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The world isn’t just losing its biodiversity; human cultures are at risk as well. Across the globe indigenous peoples suffer...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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Approximately three-quarters of Americans are in debt, in most cases due to the high cost of healthcare and education. Nearly...
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When the man who coined the term 'global warming' describes the scientist trying to reduce carbon dioxide levels as "the most...
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Good news for those with scratched, lost or damaged vocal cords through surgery or disease; a team at the University...
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In the woods of Maine is a US Summer Camp like no other. Travelling thousands of miles from their homes...
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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Buying good-quality local meat can be very expensive and not always accessible for cash-strapped carnivores, locavores (people who like to...
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Virtual reality has had a lot of press of late for its role as a catalyst for empathy. And one...
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The more our lives have been transposed to the internet, the larger our personal data trails have become. Bank details,...
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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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Wouldn't it be amazing if neuroscience helped paralysed people move again? Neural prosthetics are devices that work by offering a...
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If you've seen the film Limitless, you’re already familiar with the concept of nootropics. They are ‘smart drugs’ that provide...
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Nigeria’s healthcare system is notoriously expensive, and an unexpected emergency can bankrupt a family. Partnering up with Hygeia, EFInA (an...
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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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In the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term cyberspace. He also forewarned of brain microchips in the year...
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Jeff Mills has never allowed his vaunted status of techno legend diminish his hunger for pushing his art forwards. Few creatives...
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Demand for fisheries has been growing at 6-8% a year. However, the global production of fishmeal has been steady at...
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As the world’s cities grow the role of farmers is increasingly important, but a lack of accessible agricultural machinery can...
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This is the obvious front-runner. Elon Musk and his gang of geniuses are changing the world at a rate the...
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Hoary old cynics are hard to turn into eco-warriors. The Wilderness Awareness School, a non-profit environmental education organisation founded in...
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The idea of zapping your brain may seem unhealthy at best. If you’ve seen the film One Flew Over the...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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What if our brains could directly communicate with each other, no words necessary? In August 2013 researchers at the University...
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A new industry first in freight shipping is gaining popularity. With rising anticipation of a global emissions tax, land and air-based...
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Imagine a virtual world overlaid on top of the real one, with full physical interaction between you and the digital...
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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Hart Island lies to the east of New York City and is the largest tax-funded mass cemetery in the world....
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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A South Korean robotic team has taken home $2 million prize money in an international competition to design semi-autonomous robots...
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Many up and coming African developers create innovative software, but they do not know how to commercialise their products. At...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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The future of food production is being altered – and not by a chef, but by ex-Google Maps mastermind Dan...
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Known as the bread of the tropics, cassava is arguably the world’s most important and interesting vegetable when it comes...
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In space and forgotten your spanner? No problem. In November 2014 a 3D printer successfully printed its first object in...
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As we power forward into the future, many institutions have struggled to keep up. While education has changed the least...
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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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No one has ever been cryogenically frozen, revived, and then cured - yet. However, a team of surgeons in the...
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Buying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
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