Environment
Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells
A coffee machine pod-like system can synthesise food from packaged pods of plant cells. The system could let us make our own jam from weird and exotic plants
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Lincoln’s Frequency digital festival gets into the city’s fabric
Culture
Mind
Leap of faith: How Airbnb gets us to trust complete strangers
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Technology
A smart city in China tracks every citizen and yours could too
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Technology
Phone calls can be beamed right into your central nervous system
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Technology
Flying and rolling drone will map underground mines on its own
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Technology
Blockchain-like ID may mean end of paper birth certificates
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Earth
Mexico City quake: A few seconds’ warning can still save lives
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Technology
Why refusing to give up passwords is illegal under UK terror law
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Environment
7 crazy transport systems that didn’t go the distance
New York nearly had a pneumatic subway, and the US military thought about sending their soldiers abroad on rockets. Find out why these and other quirky ideas failed
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Technology
This self-healing robot can regenerate after being stabbed
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Health
How US diplomats may have been attacked by sonic weapons in Cuba
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Earth
There is a good case to unleash job-killing AI on the high seas
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Technology
You could finally control your Facebook data if UK law is passed
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