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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 31, 2016
Scientists in the U.S. designed a living “minimally viable” synthetic species in a lab, their colleagues in Singapore  commandeered a beetle with electrodes and turned it into a cyborg, and a team in Scotland found sections of the human genome where changes in DNA can shorten life expectancy by as many as three years. Amateur astronomers also spotted a mystery object slamming into Jupiter. Read on.
 

 
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Innovation

How "Open Topic Innovation" Can Spur Advances In Manufacturing

Mark Muro Brookings
March 30, 2016

By embracing “bottom-up” innovation, the U.S. government can help advanced manufacturing respond to the speed and complexity of technological change.

 

Gaining a national edge in the advanced manufacturing space typically isn’t a “top down” process, especially given the speed of technological change. Given that, one of the great strengths of the Obama administration’s National Network for Manufacturing Institutes (NNMI) initiative has been its vision of competitive, “bottom up” project selection and governance.
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economy

Ian Bremmer: 3 Risks Poised to Disrupt a Fast-Changing World by 2021

Ian Bremmer Eurasia Group
March 29, 2016

The forces of technological change and geopolitical decentralization are set to transform the world over the next five years. Here are the three biggest risks to watch.

 

We spend a significant amount of time looking at the year ahead at Eurasia Group. But given how quickly the world is changing — especially when the absence of global leadership means considerably more geopolitical conflict — I thought it would be useful to look further out on the horizon.

Here are the top three risks I see coming down the pike for the coming five years:

 
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 24, 2016

This week, a short novel written by an AI program did well in a Japanese literary contest, scientists spotted traces of a possible new particle that could shake the foundations of physics and a team of researchers discovered in the human genome a “nearly intact” genetic blueprint for a 700,000-year-old stowaway virus.
 

A Novel Written by AI Makes the Cut for a Literary Prize

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women

Employing An Untapped Resource In Saudi Arabia: Women

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 22, 2016
Sara AbdulAziz al-Omran is climbing the corporate ladder in a country where many women used to stay home. She leaves her parents’ home early every morning to head to her job at the All-Women Business Process Services and IT Centre. In just two years, al-Omran has gone from trainee to team leader, with three other women working directly under her. “It’s good to feel independent and achieve something in your career,” al-Omran says.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 18, 2016
In this week’s haul of news about scientific discoveries, we found stories about a pregnant dinosaur, the oldest decoded “ancient human” DNA and how selfless driving could lead to fewer traffic jams. Take a look.
 

 

 

Scientists Find a “Pregnant” T-Rex
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This week

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2016
This week brought a plethora of news from the bleeding edge of research. Monkeys learned to drive wheelchairs with their thoughts, scientists used stem cells to regenerate the lens of the eye and restore vision, doctors found a way to do kidney transplants with kidneys from any donor and avoid organ rejection, and a Google AI system beat a human champion at Go, the most complex game ever invented.
 

Monkeys Drive Wheelchairs With Their Thoughts
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collaboration

Why Collaborating Outside Your Bubble Fosters Innovation

Karim Wassef GE
March 10, 2016

Asking the right question — and expanding the circle of collaboration — can often lead to real innovation.

 

Think how the 20th century would have been different if Thomas Edison had set out to brighten dimly lit homes and illuminate industry by improving a valve on a gas lighting fixture. The conventional solutions of the time for brighter, better and safer lighting were in a “bubble” of information, technology and expertise all centered on the delivery of gas.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 03, 2016
This week’s discoveries include a 3D-printed version of “frozen smoke” that could lead to invisibility cloaks, a mummy with a colon cancer gene mutation suggesting that colorectal cancer may not be solely a product of the modern lifestyle and fungus that may be the very first ancestor of all life on land.
 

A 3D-Printed Invisibility Cloak?
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 25, 2016
In this week’s haul, one of the world’s most advanced robots gets knocked down with a pipe and gets up again, scientists collect clues on defusing a superbug’s immunity barrier with a light source 10 billion times brighter than the sun, researchers fight drug-resistant leukemia with a Trojan horse virus and engineers take tips from a desert beetle to squeeze moisture out of arid air. Take a look.
 

Study: Health Savings Offset Clean-Energy Costs in Spades
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