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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way we make nuclear reactors hasn’t really changed in decades, but now 3D printed nuclear reactors made in labs…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With over half the world’s population in some form of lockdown everyone’s smashing the networks so companies are using AI…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Small, cheap robots that can swarm together and transform themselves to accomplish a wide variety of different tasks make for…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creative machines that are capable of generating all forms of new content can be used for good, bad, and also…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF During the current Coronavirus pandemic how do you know the air around you is free from the virus? Or not?…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to develop a vaccine for a virus you need to be able to analyse and model it,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing human organs on demand is one thing, but now 3D printed tumours can help researchers develop better cancer…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to genetically sequence Covid-19 in real time means governments can slow its spread and and create vaccines faster….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Getting millions of people tested for coronavirus has become increasingly problematic and contentious, but to take this new test all…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our mastery of synthetic biology improves so too does our ability to create new types of artificial bio-weaponry, and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It takes years to develop vaccines, but when pandemics emerge you only have months and that’s not enough time so…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Summit crunched through thousands of compounds in days to find compounds that could be used in a COVID-19 vaccine. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing is an on demand manufacturing technology, and in a crisis where there’s a shortage of parts and people…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are numerous occasions where a shape shifting material, or a reactive material, would be useful and now we have…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Particle accelerators are useful for all kinds of things, from finding new particles to helping build better semiconductors, and now…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the one hand a technology like this can replace ultrasound one day, but on the other there are likely…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day nanobots and other types of electrical and robotic devices might be embedded into humans, so scientists are looking…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of entertainment is immersive and 3D, but getting there is proving hard, that said though there have been…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you generate photographic content for stock photography sites in the future you’ll be in competition with AI. Interested…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more vehicles go electric batteries need to last longer and be more reliable, and this is a significant boost…
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