Soils are the second largest global carbon sink after oceans and great allies against the climate crisis. Yet underground ecosystems...
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Projects
A new soap bar is washing pollutants and harmful bacteria off Andean rivers. Rural communities in the Peruvian Andes...
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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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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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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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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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Take a virtual walk through space and time with a walking audio book that tells a new story of the...
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Spinnova claims to have created the most sustainable fibre in the world – no small claim! Taking inspiration from the...
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Fibreshed are celebrating the regenerative possibilities of a fashion system that operates close to home, where the clothes we wear...
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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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"Together we can make a significant impact in the fight against shark fishing and their declining populations." Barcelona's Regina Domingo has...
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Like it or not – and the international pharmaceutical industry doesn’t – an Indian drug company is boldly reverse-engineering and...
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"Our mission is to end the sixth mass extinction. Humans have driven it and humans have the power to reverse it."...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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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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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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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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Trying to find the perfect love match is never easy. We might trawl through Tinder or OKCupid, looking for the...
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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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In the words of the people behind it, this might just be "the coolest thing you will see all year". And they're not...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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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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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Now you really can be a tree... when you’re six feet under. It might not seem so, but two Italian...
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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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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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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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More commonly known for being eaten with rice after going through the traditional Japanese methods of blanching, cooling, salting, there...
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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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Bento Bio hopes to do for biotechnology what laptops have done for computing. The startup is currently developing the first...
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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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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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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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