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I'm thrilled to introduce myself as editor-in-chief of Atlas of the Future, the new international Barcelona-London venture from Oriol Soler, Cathy...
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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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“The vision for Blavity is a world in which all Black people are happy.” Aaron Samuels’ life is a tale...
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South Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
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Do you want to help prevent a mass extinction? Then read on, because nature is crying out for help and...
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"I am a scientist. I am a strategist. And I am a black woman." Biomedical scientist, South Central Los Angeles...
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Trail cameras are an important tool in wildlife research and conservation – and you get some surprising results. What's...
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This week, the Global Climate Strike will go down in history. On Friday 20 September 2019, the world witnessed the biggest...
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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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… and into gyms, refugee camps and pirate radio. These 8 colourful projects combine art, creative optimism and street smarts...
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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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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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Hip Hop Caucus are using the power of hip hop culture to activate people across America and around the world...
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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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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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In the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term 'cyberspace' to describe a consensual hallucination created by millions of computers that we...
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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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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 news unrelated to monkey clones, last night's super blue blood moon or the adorable 'shower rat' (sorry to burst your soap...
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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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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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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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While the Internet gets excited about the fact that the new polymer five pound note plays vinyl, we're celebrating five projects...
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The Cairo-born futurist, technologist and award-winning science fiction author on Elon Musk, how his best ideas come on hikes and why...
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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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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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Chicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
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Submitted by you: Statistics show that more people want to shop sustainably than actually do, but the main barriers are knowledge 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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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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Blockchain technology is a real thing. But what is it? A blockchain is a public ledger of all...
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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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From a Noah’s Ark of seeds and American Idol for rural farmers to 3D printing prosthetics in conflict zones and...
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There's more to the historic Somerset House than courtyard concerts, dancing fountains and London's most iconic Christmas ice rink. In its cellars...
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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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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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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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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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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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