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A drone company saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda has become a lesson in using autonomous drones as a tool for social...
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Together we can fix our broken politics. Sortition Foundation want to create a real democracy of the people, by the people, and for the...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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LitFilmFest wants to help kids save the day, write the future and appear on the giant cinema screen. The film festival is designed...
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A simple but effective solution to tackling ocean waste, the Seabin Project was created by two surfers, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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In Pakistan, an award-winning startup is redefining special education with augmented reality games that are cheap, efficient, measurable and accessible for everyone....
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In old Norse mythology the Aesir are the principal gods of the pantheon. In present day Hong Kong AESIR are serious games for social inclusion....
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Submitted by you: Actual News reimagines the way we find, consume, interact with, pay for and follow up on news...
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This isn't clickbait: an electrical engineer based in South Africa has designed an automated locker system that allows people with chronic conditions to...
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Trainee pilots get flight simulators and now medical students get 3D printed artificial organs that can be poked, prodded and...
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Two Afghan refugees are raising global awareness of a neglected topic: landmines. There are 110 million landmines worldwide – and every day ten...
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Submitted by you: There is a world of untapped opportunities to make our everyday life more sustainable. It’s the world...
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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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During Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
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To shine a spotlight on the lack of data, on 14 September 2016, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,...
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Submitted by you: When someone you love is sick, you want them to have the best possible caregiver... You. Healthcast empowers...
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Mechanical engineer and Star Trek fan Anjan Contractor fascinated the world when he demonstrated a 3D printer that could print pizza back...
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This March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
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Installation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
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Apple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
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Imagine climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. Or dragging a blue whale around on land. Engineers from Stanford’s Biomimetics...
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One company that is helping to transform China’s image from manufacturer to innovator is DJI. The Shenzhen-based drone maker now...
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Hamburg is home to one of the world’s largest container ports. Also known as Germany's ‘Gateway to the World’, the...
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Is this the future of research and rescue missions? Having won the one million dollar 2015 UAE Drones for Good...
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It might seem like hyperbole, but NanoLeaf is not just Instagram gold. It's “the most energy efficient LED lightbulb on the planet”. While...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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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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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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Submitted by you: Familyar is an app to prevent loneliness and social isolation of older adults by deeply involving families...
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There is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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A vegetable factory that plans to open in Kyoto in 2017 will be the first farm to be entirely run by...
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A recent episode of the world's longest running investigative TV show, BBC’s Panorama, asked ‘Can You Stop My Multiple Sclerosis?’...
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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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In March 2012, two graphic designers and teachers living in Tel Aviv, Israel declared their love for Iran on Facebook....
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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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It is both amazing and disconcerting to know that we are surrounded by an invisible architecture of radio waves and...
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Data in the digital age data has transformed the way we live our lives, from artificial intelligence and drones, to...
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By now you’ve probably had some exposure to the driverless technology phenomenon – even if it’s that taxi in Total...
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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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Bento Bio hopes to do for biotechnology what laptops have done for computing. The startup is currently developing the first...
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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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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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Global Breakfast Radio aggregates local radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever the sun is rising...
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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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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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Submitted by you: Guided by a verse from the Quran, 'To save one life is to save all of humanity',...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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Self-driving robots look set to shake up the delivery business, worth a massive US$4 billion globally. And it's Skype who came up...
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Dengue fever is a fast-growing and sometimes fatal disease which infects an estimated 390 million people every year. In Abingdon,...
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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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In a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
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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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Today some of the most advanced 3D printing techniques in the world are being developed by German company Nanoscribe, who are...
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By now it’s been proven that labs can grow mini kidneys, but connecting them to a host’s excretory system has...
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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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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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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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On rolling pastures in the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, cattle peacefully graze on thick blades of grass. A...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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At first glance, Moley’s Robotic Kitchen looks like a gizmo from a futuristic film, a toy of excess, a super-expensive...
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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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Living under the threat of hurricanes and tsunamis, Hawaii has numerous outdoor warning sirens in place. And it’s of utmost...
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Latin America’s poorest slums and housing estates often lie at the margins of urban economies and social welfare systems as...
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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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Cultural identity and what it means to view oneself as self and the other as other, is so intricately complex...
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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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Known for his genetic research, biochemistry scientist and Stanford University professor Patrick Brown has created a plant-based hamburger that ‘bleeds’ just...
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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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In the past, studies into stroke rehabilitation have used restriction of movement in order to encourage recovery. The Rehabilitation Gaming System...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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Although I might struggle to find the long term social good of having shoes that light up and tie themselves,...
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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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Drones are being used to hunt down poachers in Namibia. Using US homeland security techniques, poachers are being tracked by...
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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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An unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
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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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As man’s best friend can be trained to smell the distinct odour of cancerous cells, an Israeli scientific superstar has...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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Attempts to create the sensation of touch in virtual reality has, to date, used gloves or attachments. With Ultrahaptics there...
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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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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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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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Apple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
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BMW and Chinese search engine Baidu have successfully tested driverless car in Beijing. Baidu are China’s answer to Google and, as...
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An online forum with the simple slogan ‘We Exist!’ is providing support for the 2.5 million gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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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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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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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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Access to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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Africa risks having no forests by 2052. However, a former accountant is hoping to prevent that risk becoming a reality...
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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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With a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
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Around 70 percent of worldwide epidemic diseases, such as Sars, West Nile virus or bird flu, are the result of animal-human...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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The bCPAP is literally breathing new life into African children’s life expectancy. In 2010 Malawi’s under-5 child mortality rate was...
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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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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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Social media has revolutionised communications, but all the main players demand a payback in data collection and ad exposure. Malmö,...
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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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If you could see the world through the eyes of the other, would it make it a better place? A...
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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For those craving independence and interaction, a team of European academics, designers and organisations has created a consortium to support ageing...
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A Dutch designer has reimagined the roads of tomorrow, designing a ‘Smart Highway’ to make them safer while saving money...
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Sunburn could be a thing of the past thanks to a bracelet that lets you know when it's time to...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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A new model for democratising software education is forcing top French universities to rethink accessible training. Conceived by a multi-billionaire...
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An Indian NGO in New Delhi has created a locally generated digital database of thousands of videos to teach agricultural...
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Head to Zooniverse and you’ll find ordinary people helping scientists to identify galaxies, explore historical records, or in the case...
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Today there is more content out there than ever, but digital doesn’t necessarily equal accessible. Millions of people worldwide suffer...
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The website ‘Cleanleap’ does what its name suggests - combining ‘clean technology’ and ‘leapfrogging’ to label and raise the profile...
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Incidence of heart disease is rising in many low and middle-income countries due to wealthier lifestyles and greater longevity. Cameroon...
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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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What greater resource could there be than the world’s oceans – a vast reservoir of mostly untapped power? Named after...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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An ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
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“Five years ago, it was said that one of the main reasons people weren’t buying electric cars was because of...
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Instead of using eye tracking to sell us things, as advertisers do, or hijacking our attention for hands-free fun, as...
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