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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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“An unpolluted night sky that allows the enjoyment of the contemplation of the firmament should be considered an inalienable right...
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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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Go online, catch a blood stall, and speed up Alzheimer’s research — by years! Stall Catchers is the game that...
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A new soap bar is washing pollutants and harmful bacteria off Andean rivers. Rural communities in the Peruvian Andes...
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The ResCap project releases gorgonias and soft coral accidentally fished by traditional anglers back to their natural habitat. The...
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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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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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As sequestration startup Carbo Culture sees it, nature already does a kickass job of capturing CO2. Perhaps the most innovative...
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Australian not for profit SoilCQuest helps farmers draw carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil—where it will stay...
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GROW fuses art and science, using lighting design to improve crop resilience and production while inspiring us to take a...
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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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A self-trained robotics engineer is sparking creativity and accelerating science learning in Africa – with a strong focus on rural...
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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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Reopened in November 2020 after a major renovation, Sydney’s Australian Museum brings a focus on climate solutions and First Nations...
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Is there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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Africa is building a big wall of trees through 11 countries, just under the southern edge of the Sahara, to...
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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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How can we make cutting-edge science and STEM discoveries available to younger audiences? It's important for the scientist of the...
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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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When does fashion look like magic? When the fibres it’s made from are created not from animals, plants or plastics...
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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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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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Mirazur, a Michelin three-star restaurant located in Menton on France’s Côte d’Azur, has long applied a holistic biodynamic agriculture philosophy...
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Toni Massanés has been wondering what makes things good throughout his career – and has been finding answers at the...
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While surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
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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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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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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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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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As doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
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Fertility apps aren’t just for women. Now men can test their sperm count on a smartphone, making medical testing easy,...
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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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Marine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
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The Olive Network is an online platform that aims to foster tolerance and understanding throughout diverse global communities by focusing on...
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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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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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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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Science and engineering is the most fascinating story on earth in the hands of the right storyteller. "It’s in the...
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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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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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In 2010, Sir Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully isolating graphene – a...
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What do you get if you cross a community centre, a laboratory, a studio, a gallery, science centre and a...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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The world is full of different people and cultures, each with their own unique stories to tell. Getting children to...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Universe Awareness (UNAWE) believes that learning about our cosmos and space can help expand children’s worldview and...
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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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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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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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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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It started in a shed. Indeed, the shed is still there, in Peter Dearman’s backyard, which you can find in...
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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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While the panda is officially no no longer endangered, there are fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in China – the...
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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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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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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 next big thing in space is really, really small. The SunCube FemtoSat is a fully functioning spacecraft equipped with a camera, radio,...
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Inspired by his friend Caner's experience, Turkish designer Mehmet Turker has invented an assistive device so that people who can’t use...
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The Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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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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Two students who connected over a shared interest in invention and problem-solving have designed a pair of gloves that translate American Sign...
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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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Now more than ever, small teams with limited means have the ability to innovate in ways that only large companies...
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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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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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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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Please note: This glove should be available by the end of 2017. You can get more information here. Tasks such as opening doors...
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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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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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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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Did you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
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One company that is helping to transform China’s image from manufacturer to innovator is DJI. The Shenzhen-based drone maker now...
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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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There is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
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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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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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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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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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Bento Bio hopes to do for biotechnology what laptops have done for computing. The startup is currently developing the first...
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When the man who coined the term 'global warming' describes the scientist trying to reduce carbon dioxide levels as "the most...
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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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People have been ingesting iron since 1200 BC (the Iron Age, in fact). In parts of Africa, people eat red...
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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Untouched for centuries, Morocco’s deserts are catapulting the country into solar-energy superstardom. Once a backdrop for epic productions such as Lawrence...
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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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In New Delhi, Open Source Drug Discovery takes the shamefully inefficient and expensive hit rate quoted by the big pharmaceutical...
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Virtual reality has had a lot of press of late for its role as a catalyst for empathy. And one...
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Today some of the most advanced 3D printing techniques in the world are being developed by German company Nanoscribe, who are...
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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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Never before have humans placed such a strain on nature to fuel inexhaustible demands for technology, travel and other worldly...
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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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Wouldn't it be amazing if neuroscience helped paralysed people move again? Neural prosthetics are devices that work by offering a...
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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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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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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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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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There isn’t a magic pill to cure the world’s diseases, and there isn’t a one size fits all solution for...
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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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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone areas in the world. Aside from its susceptibility to cyclones, it is...
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Science and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
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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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The idea of zapping your brain may seem unhealthy at best. If you’ve seen the film One Flew Over the...
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In the past, studies into stroke rehabilitation have used restriction of movement in order to encourage recovery. The Rehabilitation Gaming System...
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What if our brains could directly communicate with each other, no words necessary? In August 2013 researchers at the University...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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Imagine a virtual world overlaid on top of the real one, with full physical interaction between you and the digital...
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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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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As man’s best friend can be trained to smell the distinct odour of cancerous cells, an Israeli scientific superstar has...
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Attempts to create the sensation of touch in virtual reality has, to date, used gloves or attachments. With Ultrahaptics there...
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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"The wars of the next century will be fought over water – unless we change our approach to managing this...
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BMW and Chinese search engine Baidu have successfully tested driverless car in Beijing. Baidu are China’s answer to Google and, as...
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Take a 17-year-old Kenyan pupil, a school with a huge waste problem and a massive fuel shortage, and what do...
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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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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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In space and forgotten your spanner? No problem. In November 2014 a 3D printer successfully printed its first object in...
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Until now we haven’t been very good at using the sun’s energy to power our homes. The average photovoltaic panel...
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Around 70 percent of worldwide epidemic diseases, such as Sars, West Nile virus or bird flu, are the result of animal-human...
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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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The bCPAP is literally breathing new life into African children’s life expectancy. In 2010 Malawi’s under-5 child mortality rate was...
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Dengue Fever is one of the most common mosquito-borne diseases in the world, affecting an estimated 390 million people per...
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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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If you could see the world through the eyes of the other, would it make it a better place? A...
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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Sunburn could be a thing of the past thanks to a bracelet that lets you know when it's time to...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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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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No one has ever been cryogenically frozen, revived, and then cured - yet. However, a team of surgeons in the...
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Incidence of heart disease is rising in many low and middle-income countries due to wealthier lifestyles and greater longevity. Cameroon...
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Buying a car so often feels like an environmentally bad thing to do. The automotive industry’s sins are legion: overproduction,...
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Commercial trawling of the area just above the ocean floor, known as the benthic zone, is one of the biggest...
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An ex-NASA engineer is waging war against the global scourge of industrial scale deforestation by using industrial scale reforestation to...
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Instead of using eye tracking to sell us things, as advertisers do, or hijacking our attention for hands-free fun, as...
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