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Attaching importance

A little pony or skeleton key chain for your school satchel - magazine publishers work with the toy industry in order to make their products attractive to children. However, they hadn’t reckoned with a ten-year-old girl from a Welsh coastal town. Shocked by the potential environmental damage caused by the cheap plastic toys found inside her favorite magazines, she...

Healthy color

Succulent blueberries, sun-ripened tomatoes, juicy brambles - all contain anti-inflammatory properties. As signaled by their vibrant colors. Like purple maize. The cobs, like the corn, contain color pigments called anthocyanins that can help safeguard against diabetes and heart disease, but are often simply discarded. Fortunately researchers have developed a novel approach which puts them to use. First ground-up cobs...

Early comfort

Warmth, intimacy, security - we all need them, but especially when we are very small. Babies born prematurely often require specific medical attention, which can result in high levels of stress. Stress affects the oxygen levels in our brains and, in premature babies, can lead to brain damage. A new pulsating bed, placed inside an incubator, aims to simulate...

What’s said and done

Voice recorders are nothing new. Whether in the form of cassette recorders, or mobile apps that create text from speech. Until now such technology was always programmed using mouse and keyboard. But in future coding could occur through voice. Two founders, each no longer able to type, have developed apps that facilitate voice coding. The first uses natural speech...

Sticky dots

It’s banned in Singapore, great as emergency toothpaste, and can save your bacon on a first date. We’re talking about chewing gum, of course. Popular as it is, too often it finds itself discarded on the pavement or in public places. Made from synthetic polymer plastics, most chewing gum doesn’t biodegrade. Now two French design students are aiming to...

Powerful ideas

Sustainable energy sources require space. Decision-makers in Austria are aware of this, and recently challenged scientists to come up with creative solutions. In particular they were interested in new designs for noise barriers to save space elsewhere. The exact brief? To combine motorway barriers with photovoltaic elements, and increase the country’s capacity to generate renewable energy. Entrants were asked...

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