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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Drones that can autonomously track and find people can be great allies during a disaster situation, and they can also…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Slime robots can go places that other robots can’t and could have valuable applications in everything from healthcare to the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Magnetorestrictive materials might not be commonplace, but now they’re helping China’s latest generation of stealth submarines become undetectable at sea….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to making big things humanity’s great, but we’re getting better at creating things at the nanoscale too…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are increasingly learning how to manipulate the code of life – DNA – and we’re doing some very weird…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Communications speeds matter in todays world and as China looks to supercharge its digital economy this could give it a…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF LiON batteries have a variety of social and environmental issues ranging from they explode and are hard to recycle, to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China led the field in hypersonic weapons, and the USA in laser weapons, but now China has just leapfrogged the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Not everything man made is better than what nature can create, although increasingly using synthetic biology we’re re-creating nature. …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if employees helped create AI regulations? Would it be like Turkeys trying to regulate Christmas? Or could it really…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of war isn’t with massive platforms like aircraft carriers, it will increasingly be dominated by drones and other…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers can already do calculations that would take traditional computers billions of years in minutes. Now they’re getting faster….
