Did you hear the one about the hot tub, the actor and the quantum physicist? How about the one with...
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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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The future of food production is being altered – and not by a chef, but by ex-Google Maps mastermind Dan...
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Fancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
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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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Salus.Coop imagines a world where citizens control their health data. The future of our health depends largely on the...
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We recently dived head-first into the world of music visionary and climate activist Brian Eno. After an inspiring conversation about...
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“We believe that technology and renewable energy will not be enough to save us. And that for once, we should...
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CitieS-Health is making citizen science people-centred from research questions to solutions. Several citizen science projects have evaluated environmental parameters...
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“An unpolluted night sky that allows the enjoyment of the contemplation of the firmament should be considered an inalienable right...
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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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Ice is vital for Alaskan ecosystems and communities. Plus, it’s fun to play with! Fresh Eyes on Ice uses citizen...
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Communities around the world have been experiencing the effects of changes in their environment for decades. LICCI is putting them...
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Ginkgo trees evolved before the dinosaurs, survived three mass extinctions, and one species is still living today. Citizen science is...
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Soils are the second largest global carbon sink after oceans and great allies against the climate crisis. Yet underground ecosystems...
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Safetipin is on a mission to “build a world where everyone can move around without fear, especially women.” How...
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Join the wildest egg hunt on Earth, count penguins, chicks and eggs and help Oxford researchers understand the lives of...
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The 2021 IPCC report is 3,949 pages. Too busy to read it? This card game makes climate education fun. ...
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This living breathing playground harnesses the power of play to generate clean air in one of Europe’s most polluted cities....
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“Do you remember a time when the sky was filled with birds and bees, and colourful fruit grew from the...
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What if you could join a global governance body built on fairness and empathy and informed by scientists and Indigenous...
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“It’s not about the process creating a whole bunch of prototypes, it’s about the process actually being a vehicle to...
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Who better than the Book Doula to give the world the ultimate reading list for Fixing the Future Festival, our...
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We are beyond thrilled to announce that our festival of hope, surprise, and inspiration is back in Barcelona. In fact,...
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In July, we embarked on a wild journey around our planet. We met weekly for our virtual Fixing the Future...
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“We know we’re in the middle of an extinction crisis but we still know remarkably little about which species live...
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In Catalonia, thousands of people are committed to nature tracking. Their data collected over the years has enabled analysis of...
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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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Join us from 6 - 27 July 2021 for our second online edition of ‘Fixing the Future’: Nature talks, a...
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The Drones for Whale Research programme is on a mission to democratise whale science through cheap and non-invasive technology. ...
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"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." – Will Rogers It's difficult to...
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? “We are not alone in the universe. The irrational thing is to believe that we are.” – Juan Insua Mars...
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“Museums that involve citizens are the future.” Jordi Costa is the writer, filmmaker and cultural critic behind the exhibitions at Barcelona’s CCCB, one...
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15 things that have given me joy as Editor of Atlas of the Future Yes, it’s officially time for me...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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Wave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
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Get ready to enter a new dimension for medical imaging as the world's only accurate and interactive 3D holograms equip...
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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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If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein...
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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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Most people’s concept of what a museum is needs updating. In response to the challenges of COVID, the digitisation of...
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It's been a rough and challenging year, but the good news is that societal problems can be solved by humanity itself...
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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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Join us for a special online edition of 'Fixing the future' from 29 October-10 December 2020, as the future of education...
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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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Articles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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Welcome to Groundhog May. In most parts of the world May is a time of joy, when everything seems possible;...
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What a week. (Does anyone know what day it is?) This week saw the digital landscape flooded with action: Earth...
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Good news: Kindness has gone viral. OK, things are definitely weird now that we're inside for the foreseeable. But on...
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If ever there was a time to get innovative, it's now. While Tuesday saw World Health Day give respect and support to...
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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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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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“I am the Amazon. Please look after me.” Thought–provoking and emotional, the stirring sound of a 22-year-old afro-indigenous eco-activist from...
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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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Butterflies don’t just look beautiful, they have an unusual trait. They are nature's way of showing us the effects of...
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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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"In these volatile times, with so much in flux, there’s everything to play for." The most daring innovators aren’t found...
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Celebrated ocean conservationist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson knows that caring about the ocean doesn’t just mean thinking about marine ecosystems,...
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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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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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Marine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
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We live in worrying times. Sometimes it’s hard to see the bright side. Eco-anxiety is on the rise. But a...
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"It’s important to bring open-ended tools for discovery to a broad spectrum of users without dumbing down the tools." –...
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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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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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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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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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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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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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Because it's not all about science and tech you know, we've been on a mission to map creative and cultural...
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If you've taken part in a morning rave, group run or public art experience; if you've joined a campaign to...
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If you've taken part in a morning rave, group run or public art experience; if you've joined a campaign to...
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Imagine if you could get a 'city' to agree to making the world more self-sufficient. A creative team of pioneers and...
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"It’s in the freely shared ideas that collisions, oddities and thrills emerge." – Mary Anne Moser, Beakerhead Co-founder Widely known...
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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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Ever travelled back to the future? Well, you're about to. Strap in, because we're transporting you into the heart of...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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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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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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"We either build the future we want, or become the victims of it." As Director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for...
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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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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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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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What do Uber flying cars, Hoversurf drone taxis, Amazon's giant mothership zeppelin, the Soviet city in the sky and these visions of high-elevation life have...
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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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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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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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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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Climate change is real. Musk knows it, the Pope knows it and Obama knows it. With their new film, 'Before...
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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
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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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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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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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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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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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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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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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Atlas of the Future is looking for a dynamic and results-driven Community Manager based in Barcelona to develop and execute...
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Dubbed 'Ed' and 'Izzy', a pair of Raspberry Pis onboard the International Space Station went live this month after being switched...
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Since the Atlas launch just a few months ago we've seen some of the most forward-thinking and insightful minds on the planet walk through our...
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We are better equipped than at any time previously to harness the problem-solving abilities of our fellow citizens through digital...
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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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Facebook's Free Basics seeks to bring the internet to millions of people in rural India free of charge. Roughly 68%...
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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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On rolling pastures in the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, cattle peacefully graze on thick blades of grass. A...
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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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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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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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Brainwaves have always fascinated me. As a musician, the idea of understanding the brain though frequency is compelling. You can...
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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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The Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators (GTOPP) program is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration among biologists, engineers and computer scientists, which...
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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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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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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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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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