According to research, the overwhelming majority of patents are filed by men. The UK's Intellectual Property Office found that in 2018 only 13.07% of global patent applications were assoc...

Niall McCarthy · Statista 11 Oct 2019

Emerging Technologies

This is how scrolls damaged by Mount Vesuvius erupting in 79AD 'could be read'

Britain's national synchrotron facility has harnessed powerful light beams to virtually unwrap and decipher the fragile artifacts.

George Sargent · Reuters 09 Oct 2019

Healthcare Delivery

These three doctors won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize. This is why

Three scientists have won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for their work looking at cells' response to oxygen levels. Medicine is the first of the Nobel Prizes given each year and notable ...

Niklas Pollard and Kate Kelland · Reuters 08 Oct 2019

Social Innovation

This Senegal jail is teaching teenagers to fight with swords - to learn respect and discipline

Weekly fencing lessons at Thies prison in Senegal, Africa, are teaching its young offenders about discipline and respect for rules, aiming to smooth their reintegration into society.

Anna Pujol-Mazzini · Reuters 07 Oct 2019

Africa

Zimbabwe’s private sector is cleaning up its cities – literally

Residents in Harare sometimes have to wait four weeks for a rubbish collection. Clean City Africa is looking to address the problem with a mobile-based solution.

Tonderayi Mukeredzi · This is place 04 Oct 2019

Innovation

Automation and robotics could have a surprising impact on climate crisis

With at least 50% of current jobs capable of being automated, will more robots lessen or increase global warming? Car manufacture and agriculture can give us an insight.

The Conversation 03 Oct 2019

Sustainable Development

Listen to the future – how 26 youth-led organizations are supercharging the UN's Global Goals

Data skills, partnerships and the freedom to explore – all of which come naturally to millennials and Gen Zers – will be the mainstay of SDG efforts in the years to come.

Lysa John 27 Sep 2019

Technological Transformation

Researchers create bendy battery - here's how

The bendable battery will allow commercial batteries to be used in flexible electronics and textiles.

Futurity 26 Sep 2019

Climate Change

Colombian cities gather green speed with electric buses

There is a fleet of 26 now circulating in the southwestern city of 2.5 million people.

Anastasia Moloney · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 23 Sep 2019

Innovation

From Israel's 'start-up nation', 4 lessons in innovation

Israel punches above its weight as a well-spring of digital innovation. Earlier this year, a European delegation visited Tel Aviv to find out why.

Julie Ziskind and Annika Brack 13 Sep 2019

Justice and Legal Infrastructure

Why forensic science is in crisis and how we can fix it

Forensic science is more advanced than ever, but the art of interpreting it is still lagging behind – and potentially undermining trust in justice.

Ruth Morgan 12 Sep 2019

Technological Transformation

Reprogrammable ink allows objects to change colour like a chameleon

The reprogrammable ink lets objects change colors using light. Now inaminate objects can change colours, how long until humans can?

Rachel Gordon · MIT News 11 Sep 2019

Oceans

How one man got a glimpse of the Great Barrier Reef's future in 1922

Famed Australian photographer Frank Hurley started planning a trip to the Great Barrier Reef in 1920. Little did he know that the challenges he would face would be indicative of the state...

Ann Elias · The Conversation 06 Sep 2019