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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Space suits cost billions of dollars to develop and NASA’s old suits have needed a redesign for a long time….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Todays robots normally work in isolation or with minimal self-coordination, tomorrows robots will work together in swarms to build and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today if water gets into reinforced concrete the steel rusts, expands, and wrecks the infrastructure costing the world hundreds of…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology research is pushing our understanding of the term “Robot” and now human cells have been turned into robots.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine needing bone or tissue repaired inside your body, or needing a new organ, and hospital staff being able to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we’ll be able to spray all sorts of things onto surfaces, from sensors and compute, so solar panels which…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything is made of compounds and materials, and by discovering and inventing almost 400,000 new ones this news could revolutionise…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are getting closer to being able to create organisms that are 100% synthetic DNA and that are truly artificial…

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 Industry 4.0 was about AI, automation, IOT, and was tech-centric, Industry 5.0 is human-centric and promotes more ethical and responsible…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nature and synthetic biology are finding new ways to combat humanity’s waste and pollution problems.   Love the Exponential Future?…

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.  …