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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