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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many advantages to generating solar power in space and beaming it back to Earth, it’s cheap, unlimited, constant,…

WHY THIS IS MATTERS Technology that can travel throughout the human body gathering data and identifying issues will help doctors identify and solve problems faster…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The human body is still largely a mystery so increasingly as tech miniaturises it’s going where no doctor has been…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Photonic computers move data at the speed of light using ultra low energy and many think they’re the future of…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is the first time scientists have used ultrasound to read the minds of primates.   Love the Exponential Future?…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our ability to engineer materials at the nano level improves we can create new materials with amazing properties.  …

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Biological systems can change their shape, and now researchers are getting better at creating shape shifting materials of all kinds…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of computing isn’t silicon, it isn’t even quantum, it’s biological, and it’s coming.   We’ve already turned bacteria…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the next two decades or so we will be increasingly exposed to nanobots that can perform extraordinary feats as…

What type of tree is that anyway? Cornell is creating a catalogue for Nature Engineers from Caltech have developed a method that uses data from…