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8 February 2012 Last updated at 06:25 ET

Origins of Life Will where we come from change how we think about the future?

How to predict the future

From watching Star Trek to morphological analysis, there is more than one way to work out what's heading our way.

Grow your own meat How would you like your laboratory burger?

Power from the people Biofuel cells could turn humans into batteries.

Real-life Jedi How to control objects using thought alone

Ready for the revolution Remember the promise: robots will change our life?

Virus factories Tiny organisms are the future of manufacturing

Read/write genetics Rewriting human genes is becoming reality

Ideas that could change the world

Technology Features

Single molecule motor

The tiniest electric motor is made from a single molecule
Acoustic cloaking

How to make an object invisible to sound
Is hydrogen the future of motoring?

How creating a "Hydrogen Highway" along the M4 motorway could revolutionise an industry.
DNA computing

The chemical computer that could lead to "programmable chemistry"
Memristor laid bare

Getting under the sking of a revolutionary circuit component

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