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What looks like an insect, roams around southern Africa, and farts out balls of fire? A giant dung beetle made...
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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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The excellently-named Fishyleaks has been created by the Our Fish campaign to end “rampant” overfishing and illegal, unreported fishing activity...
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It was during a brainstorming session with the Chelsea fire brigade that British inventor and engineer Yusuf Muhammad learned that...
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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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Toast Ale is the UK’s first beer produced with bread. The award-winning craft beer uses surplus fresh bread from bakeries and sandwich...
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Blazing a trail for other women, Christine Fox has held the highest rank ever for a woman at the Pentagon and...
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“Want to be a revolutionary? Rip up paving slabs, plant gardens & cover your roof in solar panels." In South...
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“The peasant way of life is one of the most precious things we have on this planet to shine a...
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Guest post by Jonathan Minchin Urban visionary Carolyn Steel has captured the public imagination by giving us food as a way...
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Are you joining us for Fixing the future at the CCCB in Barcelona on 7-8 June? As if 53 'FutureHero' speakers wasn't enough, we're offering eight screenings...
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“Small Food Bakery is a journey to try and build a localised, non commodity food system, perhaps masquerading as a...
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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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Biodiversity is a hot topic at the moment, but what is it? Put simply, biodiversity helps regulate climate, air, soil...
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Who doesn't want to discover new planets? With Exoplanet Explorers, citizen scientists search for exoplanets, the planets around other stars. One...
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With Snapshot Serengeti everyone can observe animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them – so you feel like you’re seeing...
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We’re overjoyed to announce that ‘Fixing the future’ is back. And this year it's bigger, better and faster – because...
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You don’t need to be a scientist, researcher or academic to answer our biggest global challenges. That’s the point of...
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"Trees are the ultimate act of nature. They are the matrix of everything that is living, everything that gives life...
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An egg has become Instagram’s most-liked post ever. Yep, a regular egg. In its shell, without avocado. The world's most famous egg...
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Turbulent headlines on the morning of 14 November (in the form of a domino run of Brexit-toppled MPs) provided a...
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“We vote not only for ourselves, but for 'all sons and daughters' and every layer and intersection of identity. We...
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“In the 20th century, we learned to read, so we could read to learn. Now, we’re learning to make so...
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Imagine if you could click a button and be able to grow and make almost anything. That’s what Fab City is all about:...
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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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Did you hear the one about the hot tub, the actor and the quantum physicist? How about the one with...
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"Not everybody wants to work for money on a platter. Sometimes we do things just because they matter." An economist,...
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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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Described as “The Glastonbury of business“ (minus the wellington boots, silent disco and huge clean-up operation), Meaning is an edgy...
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In the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
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The things NASA want to do next are “really, really hard”. There is a misconception NASA is concerned only with...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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In the sprawling high plains of the Free State province of South Africa, Conchita Milburn is playing a key part...
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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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From culinary creativity and food fads to a dystopian future soil crisis, friends of the Atlas ask Dan Barber –...
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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of the...
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"I recognise the power of the chef in today’s world. Traditions and cultural connections should be front and centre – chefs...
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To read The Third Plate is not only to take an extraordinary journey in the company of chef and writer...
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Drawing from their backgrounds in fashion, advertising, the entertainment industries and social organizations (or NGOs), in 2011 four dynamic Paraguayan entrepreneurs cooked up Koga,...
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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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Something special is happening inside an old school made from recycled salvage from a theatre company, decommissioned bio labs and...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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Britain’s most ethical restaurant doesn’t have a bin. Founded by ex-St John chef Dougie McMaster, the team at Silo brews its own...
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Blockchain isn't just about finance and Bitcoin, but when Jessi Baker started Provenance that wasn’t the case. That’s why her idea was considered...
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The aquaponics game is fun, and now Aquapioneers wants to show Barcelona that it's also easy to harvest fish and grow food without...
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Are you ready for the good, the bad and the ugly? Here's the bad news: the world is broken. The...
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This year it will be ten years since environmental journalist and broadcaster Gaia Vince began her 900-day journey around the world...
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Faster-talking than the speed of light, louder than a sonic boom and sparkier than a volcano, extreme 'experience designer' Nelly...
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Future curious? On 13 March a future-‘supergroup’ will gather for the first time in Barcelona. Brought to you by Atlas...
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A microgreen-fingered hydroponic hero is proving that ‘zero km’ is possible – in London’s disused bomb shelters. With his groundbreaking subterranean...
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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” In...
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"Imagine if you could take billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year, safely, effectively, economically and...
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In South London a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable power – while showing the true democratic involvement...
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Coneix deu ments brillants que estan canviant el món! Tenen en comú que han trobat solucions a reptes globals que semblava...
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There is no better time to reboot our world than right now, which means there is no better time to...
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When you find yourselves somewhere between Gotham City Police HQ and Blade Runner’s Leon’s Hotel chatting to a Westworld sexbot you...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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Who would have thought at the start of 2017 that Bitcoin would increase 20-fold? Since it became the first decentralised digital currency released...
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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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Koullouna is a box of goodness made in Lebanon that supports the local ecosystem. Through a subscription, it aims to connect...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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Part of the problem with the investment industry is that it has been very backward-looking. But there is a bunch...
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Next week the Atlas team heads to Madrid for the Spanish book launch of Mark Stevenson's We Do Things Differently – which chronicles his...
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Perhaps the grandest challenge that exists is being able to answer "what if?" What happens to a city when all...
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Fresh from editing videos for the Carbon Productivity event at London's RSA, last week we returned to UBS's London HQ to shoot Volans' Breakthrough...
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Upsetting banks and big businesses worldwide, Blockchain is a global online database that anyone with an internet connection can use. Though the...
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Submitted by you: Sending money home to families throughout Indonesia is fraught with issues – finding a physical location, fees, transaction...
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Submitted by you: Ownership is a core area that most people ignore or don't think about when it comes to...
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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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Every year Sónar+D forms a key part of the stamina-pushing Sónar Festival, one of Europe's biggest and most forward-thinking dance music events. If you...
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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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Makers are inventors, creators, engineers, students or grassroot innovators who enjoy play and exploration – but they can also be people who simply want to make the...
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As more and more sensors, electronics and data radically transform the way we understand cities, Carlo Ratti makes dazzling interactive environments from the information we...
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Submitted by: Skateistan In the quiet port town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, over 1000 children work and live on the beaches,...
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Atlas of the Future has partnered with Red Bull Amaphiko to share each other's stories. The global platform enables, connects and inspires social...
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Rivers move. Fires occur. Cities grow. Forests shrink. Icecaps melt. Ecosystems change. That's why Robbie Schingler founded Planet, with the mission...
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Trying to find the perfect love match is never easy. We might trawl through Tinder or OKCupid, looking for the...
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Within a hidden mad professor's lab in Berlin-Kreuzberg, one team is on a mission to feed a rapidly expanding population,...
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If there’s one political topic that has dominated our collective social consciousness in the last decade, it’s terrorism. Terrorism and...
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A vegan mayo CEO wants to change the world by making the right thing easy and sexy: "The thing that, if...
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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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In March 2017, Fab Lab Barcelona celebrated ten years of innovation, participation, digital manufacturing, technology and creation with a big birthday fiesta at the...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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... and by nature. Good Energy is one of the most ethical and sustainable energy companies in the world. Providing 100%...
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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Hacker, activist, geek and poet Birgitta Jónsdóttir is best known for founding Iceland's Pirate Party – a movement of anarchists and techies that asks for direct democratic...
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A vegan mayo CEO wants to change the world by making the right thing easy and sexy: "The thing that, if...
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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean every year – killing over a million seabirds, hundreds of thousands...
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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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Rivers move. Fires occur. Cities grow. Forests shrink. Icecaps melt. Ecosystems change. That's why Robbie Schingler founded Planet, with the mission to make...
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Given his job as a futurologist, a lot of fearful, liberally minded types have been asking Mark Stevenson what he thinks about...
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? AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
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After Uber and Airbnb, what next for the sharing economy? And what even is the sharing economy? One thing's for sure,...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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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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This year might have had its dark times, but there are many reasons to get excited. From the Faroe Islands to Patagonia,...
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Can an airplane fly all around the world without using a drop of fuel? Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg proved...
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Submitted by you: The UnSchool is an experimental knowledge lab for creative rebels and change agents that teaches the 'Disruptive...
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Gum, coins, Lego, batteries; infants and young children will eat the strangest things. Most small toys will pass through a child’s digestive...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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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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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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With Quantino electric vehicles, a Liechtenstein-based company want to prove that its nanoFlowcell® technology can free mobility from its dependence on fossil fuels and current...
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Have you spotted cyborg vultures catching illegal fly tippers; heard of a cool way tech is bringing clean water to the...
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Our friends the bees are in scarily rapid decline worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon caused by pesticides, parasites,...
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The sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
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There are over 100,000 babies born with hearing impairment in India every year. If not detected at an early stage,...
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The Dominican Light Project is a new solar tech crowdfunding campaign that aims to illuminate the entire country by bringing simple solar lamps to the 10 million residents...
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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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Harvesting edible insects in desktop hives, LIVIN Farms has developed a plug-in kitchen appliance for raising mealworms on your desktop as a...
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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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This week Australian computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright claimed that he is the man behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto,...
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Nearly ten years ago, in the Tuscan seaside town of Livorno, a robotics researcher asked her father to catch her...
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In light of this century’s gains in life expectancy, the issue of supporting older people so that they can remain in...
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Soft robot technology is often considered to be robots without 'bones', which can move and manipulate thanks to their rubbery...
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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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Parag Khanna loves maps. Born in India, his parents took him everywhere on their travels while growing up in the...
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“Humans are optimised to walk very efficiently. However, people with disabilities often have reduced function of their muscles.” At Wyss...
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On Sunday, Solar Impulse 2 became the first solar powered plane to cross the Pacific. After completing the latest leg and...
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Described by some as the biggest news story of the year, last week WhatsApp added encryption to 1 billion people's...
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Ever seen a truck roll out solar panels like carpet? Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 to develop the rollable solar array, has...
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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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A radical and experimental new cancer treatment has recently achieved a success rate of over 90 percent in a trial. Immunotherapy is a...
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We have taken, for the first time in human history, steps towards being able to change who we are at...
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One of the main challenges of the current century is to transform our consumption-oriented economic system into an eco-friendly and...
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Globally we produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Yet, according to some digital archivists, much of it could...
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Imagine a metal that can be bent and stretched up to four times its original length. Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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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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Five African nations went to the polls this week in what has been dubbed Africa's #SuperSunday. Voting on the same...
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Blockchain technology is a real thing. But what is it? A blockchain is a public ledger of all...
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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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A lot of staring at screens happens at Mobile World Congress – whether tapping away at your own rapidly depreciating handset, ogling smarter...
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Last week, Arpa-E Director Dr Ellen Williams announced that her department had developed an energy storage device to rival Elon Musk’s...
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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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This week WikiHouse co-founder and FutureHero Alastair Parvin went to the cinema to see The Big Short (2015), Hollywood’s take on the...
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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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In March 2012, two graphic designers and teachers living in Tel Aviv, Israel declared their love for Iran on Facebook....
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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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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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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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In the Southern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Chirezi Foundation is helping to bring about peaceful solutions to...
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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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GEOCOCO – Geography of Corporal Consciousness – is a form of therapy designed to enhance our daily lives by improving...
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The phrase 'dog-eat-dog world' was coined in the 19th century with the birth of modern capitalism. As the power looms...
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Recently NASA has felt more on the radar than usual. With Major Tim Peake – the first official British astronaut...
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The tech evangelist behind Mulheres na Computaçao (Women in Computing) on spreading the good news about technology’s power to change the world,...
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The author and futurologist transports us from India to Germany through his top 5 Atlas projects – from teeny, tiny 3D printing to the Airbnb...
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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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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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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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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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In New Delhi, Open Source Drug Discovery takes the shamefully inefficient and expensive hit rate quoted by the big pharmaceutical...
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Samantha Storr keeps a low profile, but is very much the woman behind top directors Terry Gilliam, Chris Milk, Spike Jonze...
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The Croatian-born London-based computational artist – who works with 3D visualisation systems for a post-data world – takes us on...
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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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The Devon dairy farmer’s daughter – who left the Pacific to come home and start a little revolution with Village Farm – on the...
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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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As far as daunting projects go they don’t come much bigger than overhauling one of the worst performing schools in...
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The Croatian-born 3D computational artist, geneticist and 'data-friendly Elvis' on the beauty of maths, transmitting emotions as visuals and data...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind...
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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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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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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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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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Home to more than 170,000 Palestinians, Hebron is the largest city in the West Bank. But an archaic Ottomon law allows government...
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The lead founder behind the revolutionary WikiHouse – the digitally manufactured building system that anyone can download and make –...
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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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Revolutionary technology rarely looks the part. The steel chimneys and chemical storage silos of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand could be...
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As NASA's mission passed Pluto last week, I undertook my own flyby of London to meet up with Atlas of the Future co-founder...
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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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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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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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Power Japan Plus has developed a powerful battery with numerous potential uses, powering everything from flashlights to electric cars. There is...
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The world’s first electrically powered car and passenger ferry, namely Ampere, started service in Norway earlier this year. Conventional ferries...
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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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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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