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Spotted: Emergency clinical settings such as operating rooms and intensive-care units are often fast-paced, stressful environments where human errors sometimes occur. Globally, medication errors, whether that’s mislabelling a syringe or selecting the wrong vial, account for over half of the overall preventable harm in medical care. Could AI help to limit these oversights? Although there […]
Spotted: In remote and rural locations, there can be limited capacity for conducting invasive diagnostic tests, such as blood tests. These tests can also be stressful, particularly for children. One startup, called The Smart Lollipop, is developing a more patient-friendly way to conduct diagnostic tests or monitor disease. The smart lollipop-shaped device is not for […]
Spotted: Every year, millions of tonnes of by-products from commercial food manufacturing processes, such as peels and rinds, are thrown away – even though they often contain plenty of valuable nutrients. On top of this, growing these wasted ingredients has a large environmental impact. Green Spot Technologies is fighting this waste by using fermentation to […]
Spotted: Tempeh is a whole food protein made from fermented soybeans that’s packed with fibre and probiotics. Long a part of meat-free and health-food diets, tempeh has also been a staple of Indonesian cuisine for more than 400 years. Now, UK food-tech company Better Nature is taking tempeh even further. Better Nature is building on […]
Spotted: Our bedrooms and bathrooms are full of products packaged in single-use plastic containers, with around 120 billion pieces of beauty packaging thrown away around the world every year. UK startup Rollr wants to help reduce that figure, with a sustainable, refillable deodorant offering. Rollr has developed a refillable roll-on deodorant, with a frictionless roller […]
Spotted: According to PwC, there are five key remaining barriers to realising clean hydrogen’s full potential as a carbon-free energy source, one being inadequate infrastructure. Changing this will require a strong network of distributors, refuelling stations, and storage systems. Canadian startup Ayrton Energy believes it has a solution that can help to achieve this. The […]
Spotted: Altyn Dala, the “Golden Steppe”, is a vast belt of grassland dotted with wetlands and desert that stretches thousands of miles across Kazakhstan. It is one of the world’s most unique habitats – but it is also threatened with destruction from climate change, intensive agriculture, and industrialisation. How is one initiative working to change […]
Spotted: The net-zero transition isn’t just about clean energy generation, it’s also ensuring that this electricity can be transported where it’s needed. That means a strong and reliable grid. However, around 40 per cent of Europe’s grid infrastructure is already 40 years old, meaning it’s only got about a decade left in its lifespan and […]
Spotted: It’s estimated that 80 per cent of the global power capacity increase needed to meet Net Zero by 2050 will come from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. This means our grids need a revamp, with more flexibility on the demand side to balance our consumption with new renewable sources. Rising to meet […]
Spotted: The building and construction sector is the heaviest hitter in the world, by far, when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. A massive 37 per cent of all global emissions come from construction, with embodied carbon (the footprint of materials) accounting for a large proportion of this. The world needs alternatives to carbon-intensive concrete […]