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  • Aerospace
  • Innovation Watch

Invention based on household objects could help us extract water from frozen moon soil

If we want to pursue more ambitious deep space missions, it’ll help to have a lunar base with a clean water supply. Now, Gloucestershire-based startup Naicker Scientific has invented a way to purify water from icy lunar soil based on a Tesco microwave and ultrasound technology.

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  • Technology & robotics
  • Opinion

Innovation machines: can AI boost human creativity?

AI won’t replace human creativity. But it could become an invaluable creative partner, say Nick Jennings FREng and Lise Jaillant.

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  • Environment & sustainability
  • Software & computer science
  • Innovation Watch

Better batteries, crunchier biscuits: prize-winning startup Polaron solves material problems

When three Imperial College researchers set out to develop AI tools for making better batteries, they probably didn’t expect that the same tools might one day help fine-tune the texture of Oreos.

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  • Health & medical
  • Issue 102

Stopping the bleed: a challenge for engineers

Haemorrhage is second only to traumatic brain injury as a cause of death from injury the UK. Tourniquets are well known for treating blood loss from limbs, but there is no proven equivalent for patients with a non-compressible haemorrhage. Surgeons, emergency department physicians and other trauma specialists grappling with this problem are now looking to engineers for new solutions.

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  • Health & medical
  • Innovation Watch
  • Issue 102

The medical test battling antibiotic resistance

Every year, more than a million people die as a direct result of ‘superbugs’ that have become resistant to antibiotics. Now, a test that can identify common bacterial infections in minutes and pick out the right drug to prescribe will help us use these lifesaving drugs more wisely.

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  • Arts & culture
  • Civil & structural
  • Issue 100

How ABBA Voyage was made

ABBA said they’d never tour again. Bringing them back required a technological marvel, a fully demountable arena, and an array of engineering disciplines working in tandem to make it all come together. Leonie Mercedes goes on a voyage to explore the engineering behind the show.

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