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We need to track the world's water like we track the weather

How to bring affordable, sustainable electricity to Africa

What is economic value, and who creates it?

How volumetric video brings a new dimension to filmmaking

Ancient Rome's most notorious doctor

What makes TB the world's most infectious killer?

Your body vs. implants

Underwater farms vs. climate change

How close are we to eradicating HIV?

Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment

How light technology is changing medicine

In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?

How do self-driving cars "see"?

Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft

The hidden network that makes the internet possible

Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves

A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines

A climate change solution that's right under our feet

How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it

The next global agricultural revolution

Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA?

Architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders

Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?

How to grow a glacier

Why do hospitals have particle accelerators?

Why language is humanity's greatest invention

The case for vermicomposting

Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper?

The beautiful future of solar power

Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch

What if all US health care costs were transparent?

The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future

Could a tattoo help you stay healthy?

A beginner's guide to quantum computing

The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care

The self-assembling computer chips of the future