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Asteoid nasa

Five world-changing ideas – in charts

By Miriam Quick / Illustrations by Rebecca Zhou

Artificial islands

Could your next home be a fake island?

Electronic waste is rising sharply across Asia as higher incomes allow hundreds of millions of people to buy smartphones and other gadgets (Credit: Getty)

An eco-friendly way to make smartphones

By Sophia Smith Galer

Estonia

The first ‘digital’ country?

By Bryan Lufkin

Antibiotic resistance

How we’ll fight the end of antibiotics

By Erin Biba

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The villages transformed by solar power

By Rachel Nuwer

A trunk sewer technician holds a 'fatberg' as he works in the intersection of the Regent Street and Victoria sewer in London (Credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)

The surprising benefits of 'fatbergs'

By Richard Gray

Rubbish

Four clever ways to deal with rubbish

By Bryan Lufkin

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The trains that run on wind

By Bryan Lufkin

India traffic

How to tame overcrowded roads

By Edd Gent

Water ensures political stability because countries must share bordering water sources and export crops and food that require water to grow (Credit: Getty Images)

Could we tap water from thin air?

By Bryan Lufkin

Here's what a cargo ship remote-controlled by a human half a world away could look like. A certain degree of automation could cut costs spent on crew. (Credit: Wärtsilä)

The ships that will change the seas

By Chris Baraniuk

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The surprising ways AI protects us

By Richard Gray

Cross-breeding wild vegetables with their cultivated counterparts on the farm could create a hybrid super-veggie resilient to pests and disease (Credit: LM Salazar / Crop Trust)

The 'super plants' with amazing powers

By Sophia Smith Galer

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33 ideas that will change the world

By Bryan Lufkin

Grand Ideas (Credit: Alamy)

The ideas that will save the world

By Bryan Lufkin