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“When you contract your pelvic floor, the bird goes up. When you relax it, the bird goes down.” At...
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See moreLike it or not – and the international pharmaceutical industry doesn’t – an Indian drug company is boldly reverse-engineering and...
See moreJust ten days before this was written, the lives of four twenty-something friends – Simone Policano, Healy Chait, Mimi Aboubaker...
See moreCalling all doctors, nurses, engineers and designers: coronavirus wants you! Ventilators are essential for taking care of people struggling to breathe...
See moreThis is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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See moreAs doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
See moreColombia’s diverse geography – from towering Andean mountain ranges, to vast flooding wetlands and thick Amazonian jungle – has made...
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See more"It’s important to bring open-ended tools for discovery to a broad spectrum of users without dumbing down the tools." –...
See moreA lack of wheelchair accessibility makes it hard for disabled people to maintain independence. That’s why a group of ten...
See more"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
See moreImagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
See moreCuriscope's Virtuali-Tee is a t-shirt with guts. The ‘smart’ garment projects biology onto children in order to teach them about anatomy. Described by...
See moreThis isn't clickbait: an electrical engineer based in South Africa has designed an automated locker system that allows people with chronic conditions to...
See moreTrying to find the perfect love match is never easy. We might trawl through Tinder or OKCupid, looking for the...
See morePart of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
See moreThey say "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", but that is not computed by 84-year-old Annie Middelburg, who...
See moreCondom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
See moreGum, coins, Lego, batteries; infants and young children will eat the strangest things. Most small toys will pass through a child’s digestive...
See moreIn 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
See moreGerman delivery firm DHL have beaten tech firms Amazon and Google in delivering medical packages to remote or geographically challenging areas via drone, announcing...
See moreThe world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
See moreThere are over 100,000 babies born with hearing impairment in India every year. If not detected at an early stage,...
See moreTwo students who connected over a shared interest in invention and problem-solving have designed a pair of gloves that translate American Sign...
See moreToday mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
See moreSoft robot technology is often considered to be robots without 'bones', which can move and manipulate thanks to their rubbery...
See morePlants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
See morePlease note: This glove should be available by the end of 2017. You can get more information here. Tasks such as opening doors...
See moreA radical and experimental new cancer treatment has recently achieved a success rate of over 90 percent in a trial. Immunotherapy is a...
See moreWe have taken, for the first time in human history, steps towards being able to change who we are at...
See moreImagine a metal that can be bent and stretched up to four times its original length. Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
See moreDid you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
See moreHamburg is home to one of the world’s largest container ports. Also known as Germany's ‘Gateway to the World’, the...
See moreA recent episode of the world's longest running investigative TV show, BBC’s Panorama, asked ‘Can You Stop My Multiple Sclerosis?’...
See moreGood news for those with scratched, lost or damaged vocal cords through surgery or disease; a team at the University...
See morePeople have been ingesting iron since 1200 BC (the Iron Age, in fact). In parts of Africa, people eat red...
See moreSubmitted by you: Guided by a verse from the Quran, 'To save one life is to save all of humanity',...
See moreDengue fever is a fast-growing and sometimes fatal disease which infects an estimated 390 million people every year. In Abingdon,...
See moreBy now it’s been proven that labs can grow mini kidneys, but connecting them to a host’s excretory system has...
See moreMore than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
See moreIf you've seen the film Limitless, you’re already familiar with the concept of nootropics. They are ‘smart drugs’ that provide...
See moreIn October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
See moreIn the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term cyberspace. He also forewarned of brain microchips in the year...
See moreHealthcare is underpinned by what’s sometimes defined as the ‘biomedical model’: the system responds when people are sick (with treatment)...
See moreThe idea of zapping your brain may seem unhealthy at best. If you’ve seen the film One Flew Over the...
See moreIn the past, studies into stroke rehabilitation have used restriction of movement in order to encourage recovery. The Rehabilitation Gaming System...
See moreNot content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
See moreAn estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
See moreAs man’s best friend can be trained to smell the distinct odour of cancerous cells, an Israeli scientific superstar has...
See moreIn 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
See moreThe bCPAP is literally breathing new life into African children’s life expectancy. In 2010 Malawi’s under-5 child mortality rate was...
See moreDengue Fever is one of the most common mosquito-borne diseases in the world, affecting an estimated 390 million people per...
See moreAround 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
See moreFor those craving independence and interaction, a team of European academics, designers and organisations has created a consortium to support ageing...
See moreSunburn could be a thing of the past thanks to a bracelet that lets you know when it's time to...
See moreSMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
See moreNo one has ever been cryogenically frozen, revived, and then cured - yet. However, a team of surgeons in the...
See moreIncidence of heart disease is rising in many low and middle-income countries due to wealthier lifestyles and greater longevity. Cameroon...
See moreInstead of using eye tracking to sell us things, as advertisers do, or hijacking our attention for hands-free fun, as...
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