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Open any book of speculative science fiction and chances are, the subject of mind control will come up. Not so much the ability to control others wi…

The Internet of Things - where all things in the real world are digitally tagged and monitored, as with the internet - is fast becoming a reality.

Imagine if you will a long tether made of super-tensile materials, running 100,000 km from the Earth and reaching into geostationary orbit. Now im…

One of the hallmarks of modern medicine is the way it is taking diseases and conditions once thought to be chronic and incurable, and presenting p…

Solar Power has come a long way in recent years. Once considered to be the most promising amongst energy alternatives, it has now reached a point wh…

Fusion power has taken a beating in the last few decades. Once considered the best option for clean, abundant alternatives to fossil fuel and coal…

When it comes to the broken promises of the 21st century, the flying car is considered the greatest of betrayals. For those of us growing up in th…

XPRIZE launched its most recent grand challenge last week, the Global Learning XPRIZE , a $15M competition to empower children to take control of th…

  “We love crowdfunding and we love incentive competitions. What’s working is that there isn’t a singular platform to go to to combine and collaborat…

The Seawater Desalination Challenge is a competition to facilitate the development of breakthrough technologies for low-cost removal of salt from se…