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Back to SearchHow to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone
Fake medicines are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year. But inventors around the world are coming up with ways to spo…
4 years, 9 months ago
Talking signs, amazing peas and planes mapping fires
Signs that connect to a mobile phone app, which then reads the information out loud, are appearing in some cities. The technology is designed to help…
4 years, 9 months ago
Can computer games improve mental health?
Apart of Me is a computer game that has been designed to help young people process grief. It’s part of a movement that’s bringing together psycholo…
4 years, 10 months ago
Robots on the beat
Police forces in the US are turning to futuristic technology to tackle a rise in violent crime and murder across the country. In one area of Califo…
4 years, 10 months ago
Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles
Irrigation pipes have been designed to double as mid-air walkways to help slow lorises cross open farmland in Indonesia; and a footbridge has been bu…
4 years, 10 months ago
Saving mums and their unborn babies
Women in a village in Northern Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives. They decided to act when they saw mums…
4 years, 10 months ago
The hotel for homeless people
What would happen if the government of a country decided to try to find everyone who was homeless and living on the streets and offer them a place to…
4 years, 10 months ago
The library where the books are people
At the human library you borrow a person you wouldn’t usually meet for a half-hour frank conversation. The volunteers have various book titles from p…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ways to save the planet: Fridge detectives
Two sources of greenhouse gas could be lurking in your kitchen: rice and fridges. We meet a biologist breeding climate-friendly rice, and a team of d…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ways to save the planet: Swap concrete for wood
Wood is strong enough to build skyscrapers, and bamboo - the fastest growing plant in the world - can also be used for building. Both suck up large a…
4 years, 11 months ago