Fam Studio helps young minds prepare for uncertain futures through hands-on learning. There are many challenges facing the young...
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The community-powered organisation keeps over 8 thousand Black women gamers safe online and advocates for diversity, inclusion and equity in...
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This educational video game highlights the importance of preserving ecosystems, caring for local fauna, and fighting urban speculation. Would...
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Enter a safe magical space where you can explore your feelings. Hear the stories of people who’ve been where you...
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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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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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Tickr’s app allows users to invest as little as £5 in companies expanding access to education, clean water, renewable energy...
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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 pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
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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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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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Silver Sharers is a sharing scheme with a heart that matches homeowners over-50 in London with flatmates, providing long-term and...
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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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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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Millennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
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Florence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
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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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Dystopian science fiction movie Ready Player One (2018) showcased a futuristic world where it’s possible to live life in virtual reality, meeting...
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"We know that 'ethical' can mean very different things to different people. But for us, it's broadly about pursuing sustainability...
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It was during a brainstorming session with the Chelsea fire brigade that British inventor and engineer Yusuf Muhammad learned that...
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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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LitFilmFest wants to help kids save the day, write the future and appear on the giant cinema screen. The film festival is designed...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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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 Media Trust believes in the power to change lives through, as the name suggests... media. Whether working to help...
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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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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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If there’s one political topic that has dominated our collective social consciousness in the last decade, it’s terrorism. Terrorism and...
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Providing pure creativity in a digital world, Barcelona-based creative symposium OFFF is more than a design festival with unbridled Fs. It's a...
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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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Do you know where your handbag or tuna comes from? Every product tells a story. And knowing more about where products...
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Submitted by you: There is a world of untapped opportunities to make our everyday life more sustainable. It’s the world...
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During Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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What if the darkest social and environmental clouds really did turn up silver linings? What if the United Nation’s Sustainable...
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Rail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
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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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This March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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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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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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Global Breakfast Radio aggregates local radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever the sun is rising...
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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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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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Self-driving robots look set to shake up the delivery business, worth a massive US$4 billion globally. And it's Skype who came up...
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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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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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At first glance, Moley’s Robotic Kitchen looks like a gizmo from a futuristic film, a toy of excess, a super-expensive...
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Jeff Mills has never allowed his vaunted status of techno legend diminish his hunger for pushing his art forwards. Few creatives...
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Cultural identity and what it means to view oneself as self and the other as other, is so intricately complex...
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Drones are being used to hunt down poachers in Namibia. Using US homeland security techniques, poachers are being tracked by...
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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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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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A South Korean robotic team has taken home $2 million prize money in an international competition to design semi-autonomous robots...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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By 2030, Africa will have the world's largest working population, but few Africans currently have the technical and product development...
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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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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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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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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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