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Electrified artificial skin can feel exactly where it is touched
Orange-coloured gel has been made into artificial skin that can be 3D printed in any shape and detect human touch – one day it could help robots feel
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Earth
Living ‘concrete’ made from bacteria used to create replicating bricks
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Space
Welcome to Lunarville: Building a permanent settlement on the moon
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Rocket man: How I became a jet suit pilot
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Physics
Blasting lead with 160 lasers makes it incredibly strong, then explode
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Steel and concrete are climate change’s hard problem. Can we solve it?
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Environment
Tackling emissions from heavy industry is key to fixing climate change
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Here’s how we can stop a mountain of electric car batteries piling up
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Health
A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding
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Generator that runs on heat escaping to the sky can charge phones
A thermoelectric generator that produces off-grid electricity at night from heat radiating from the ground can power lights and phones in remote areas
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Space
Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive
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Environment
Packaging-free shops may tackle plastic but risk increasing food waste
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A solar panel that unfolds in sunlight could power spacecraft
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Shatterproof phone screens could be made from seashell-like glass
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