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Tech That Tricks the Brain

Two tech start-ups are using wearable technology to trick the brain to solve problems

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Time to Update the Stranger Danger Message?

Stranger Danger: Still the best message to keep children safe?

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The Country Where You Can Be Jailed for Using Plastic Bags

In Kenya you can be jailed for four years for carrying a single-use plastic bag.

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How to Build a City for an Ageing Population

Japan’s Kashiwa City has redesigned buildings and jobs to adapt to an ageing population

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The Banks That Run on Time Instead of Money

How does the 'time economy' work?

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Smart Boats That Sail on a Bed of Bubbles

What’s being done to clean up the shipping industry and make it less polluting?

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How 'Buddy Benches' are Making Playtime Less Lonely

Buddy Benches are proving popular in Irish schools

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Can This Smart Street Stop Drinkers Getting Violent?

How a Dutch city is trying to reduce violence by changing the colour of street lights

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Can US Entrepreneurs Help Fix Education in Africa?

A growing network of high-tech schools aims to tackle a ‘crisis’ in African education

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The Little Libraries Bringing Books into People’s Homes

Small boxes of books placed across the world are bringing people together

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Checking in with the Problem Solvers

We update you on stories from 2018 including a plan to catch junk in space

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Does the World Need More Babies?

How countries with low birth rates are trying to get people to have more babies

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The Talent Show for Honest People

In the Integrity Idol talent show, it doesn’t matter if you can sing or dance

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The Turkish App to Help Autistic Children Learn

Can these games help autistic children get the right education?

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The Shopping Mall Where Everything is Recycled

A shopping mall in Sweden only sells recycled items, thanks to its clever location

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How Nepal Doubled its Tiger Population

Over the past 10 years, Nepal has almost doubled its population of Bengal tigers

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‘No men allowed’: The gym getting women fit and into work

A single-sex gym in Turkey is helping women exercise and become entrepreneurs

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Predicting suicide

How machine learning could be used to predict who will take their own life

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Turning old clothes into new ones

Could dissolving mountains of old clothes help create material for new ones?

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Last video messages to help children grieve

The app that helps parents make precious video memories for their children

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Crossing divides in Cyprus

Could a centre in the buffer zone that divides Cyprus bring two communities together?

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The digital detectives tackling child sexual abuse

Meet the online volunteers helping Europol track down child abusers and their victims

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Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?

How phages – viruses that kill bacteria – are saving lives.

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The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

Women who have had surgery for fistula are making sure others get life-changing treatment

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The great mosquito swap

Scientists are hoping to stop diseases spreading by changing the mosquito population

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DNA tests for dogs to tackle problem poo

US residents fed up with dog mess are using a high-tech solution

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The reuse and refill revolution

Should we reuse and refill plastic packaging to limit the amount being thrown away?

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The tree detectives tackling illegal logging

Scientists are building a database to help them tell exactly where wood has come from

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Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?

The people hoping to use sanitary pad micro-factories and silicone cups to help women

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Working less for the same pay

Some companies are cutting the hours their staff work but keeping their pay the same

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