Condom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
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Can an airplane fly all around the world without using a drop of fuel? Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg proved...
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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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With rice being a major staple of diet in Japan, agriculture is a massively important industry. Japanese IT firm OPTiM and Saga University...
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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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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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Gum, coins, Lego, batteries; infants and young children will eat the strangest things. Most small toys will pass through a child’s digestive...
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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one of...
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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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Few things are as wasteful as a mobile phone. Designed to be discarded, even the latest model can seem outdated...
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The words ‘unmanned aerial vehicle’ (UAV) may not sound particularly exciting, but use the more common name – drone – and a much...
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US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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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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With Quantino electric vehicles, a Liechtenstein-based company want to prove that its nanoFlowcell® technology can free mobility from its dependence on fossil fuels and current...
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German delivery firm DHL have beaten tech firms Amazon and Google in delivering medical packages to remote or geographically challenging areas via drone, announcing...
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Dubai wants to be the world leader in 3D printing – and the 'City of Gold' has a mega-plan. Their 'Office of the...
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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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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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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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The sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
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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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Chicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
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There are over 100,000 babies born with hearing impairment in India every year. If not detected at an early stage,...
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The Dominican Light Project is a new solar tech crowdfunding campaign that aims to illuminate the entire country by bringing simple solar lamps to the 10 million residents...
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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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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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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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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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In light of this century’s gains in life expectancy, the issue of supporting older people so that they can remain in...
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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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“Africa has a very rich storytelling history but because the delivery of these stories was mostly oral we lost a...
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Ever seen a truck roll out solar panels like carpet? Renovagen, a company formed in 2012 to develop the rollable solar array, has...
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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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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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Installation artist Olafur Eliasson is combining sustainable energy with art to bring clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.3 billion...
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Apple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
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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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Imagine climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. Or dragging a blue whale around on land. Engineers from Stanford’s Biomimetics...
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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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Hamburg is home to one of the world’s largest container ports. Also known as Germany's ‘Gateway to the World’, the...
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Is this the future of research and rescue missions? Having won the one million dollar 2015 UAE Drones for Good...
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It might seem like hyperbole, but NanoLeaf is not just Instagram gold. It's “the most energy efficient LED lightbulb on the planet”. While...
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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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Hundreds of students from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are signed-up to Soliya Connect,...
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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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Submitted by you: Familyar is an app to prevent loneliness and social isolation of older adults by deeply involving families...
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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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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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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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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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In March 2012, two graphic designers and teachers living in Tel Aviv, Israel declared their love for Iran on Facebook....
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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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It is both amazing and disconcerting to know that we are surrounded by an invisible architecture of radio waves and...
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Data in the digital age data has transformed the way we live our lives, from artificial intelligence and drones, to...
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By now you’ve probably had some exposure to the driverless technology phenomenon – even if it’s that taxi in Total...
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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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With more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water, a tremendous amount of waste and energy must...
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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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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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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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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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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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Submitted by you: Guided by a verse from the Quran, 'To save one life is to save all of humanity',...
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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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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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Virtual reality has had a lot of press of late for its role as a catalyst for empathy. And one...
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In a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
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The more our lives have been transposed to the internet, the larger our personal data trails have become. Bank details,...
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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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While sunshine might be the exception to the norm of British drizzle, on a bright day solar panels can create...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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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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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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On rolling pastures in the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, cattle peacefully graze on thick blades of grass. A...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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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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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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Living under the threat of hurricanes and tsunamis, Hawaii has numerous outdoor warning sirens in place. And it’s of utmost...
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