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Connecting Engineers with Local Community Groups

How UCL's Engineering Exchange helps experts and activists work together for a better world.
Alice Bell
Nov 5, 2014 2 min read

Arsenic-Eating Plants Could Clean Up the World’s Rice Fields

The crop even has potential to be used after harvest as a biofuel.
Stephanie M. McPherson
Nov 5, 2014 2 min read

Drones Are Tracking the Spread of Malaria

Changes in land use can cause unpredictable changes to how disease spread–until now.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Nov 5, 2014 2 min read
Clouds reflected in the windows of an office.

The $25 Chemical Scanner That Runs Off Cell Networks

One smart device that can carry out an extraordinary range of tests.
Charles Q. Choi
Nov 4, 2014 1 min read

How 3D-Mapping with Drones Is Changing the Shape of Peruvian Favelas

A new way to use drones for social good.
Alice Bell
Nov 1, 2014 2 min read

TV Shows Could Power the Internet of Things

Energy efficient chips can communicate with each other, powered only by ambient communication waves.
Mark Harris
Oct 30, 2014 2 min read

Making the “Light” Episode of How We Got To Now

Steven Johnson explains how the show was put together.
Matt Locke
Oct 29, 2014 2 min read

Billions of Kids Will Use This $1-dollar Paper Microscope

Getting science into the hands of children across the world.
Charles Q. Choi
Oct 29, 2014 1 min read

Instagram and the Evolution of Surfing Prosthetics

Solving the problem of the surfing foot.
Leslie Baehr
Oct 24, 2014 2 min read

Grass is Fixing The Pollution From Your Cup of Coffee

Runoff from the coffee industry in Ethiopia is being cleaned by a special kind of grass.
Alexander Sehmer
Oct 24, 2014 2 min read
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