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Bold Ideas

Sometimes the best solutions are the crazy ones — the ones that are so wild, so seemingly outlandish, and so outside-the-box that they just might work. In this series, we explore a handful of these ideas — from lab-grown seafood to artificial photosynthesis — and take you on a tour of some of the most potentially groundbreaking concepts in the world of tech.

Minority Report for poachers: Can predictive algorithms prevent wildlife crime?
Animal skulls on shelf
Drivers needed (sort of): Einride wants remote pilots for its driverless pods
Launching little: Inside Rocket Lab’s ingenious plan to democratize space
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VR is making medical training cheaper, better, and more accessible than ever
vr medical training virti surgery simulation mediaca realities 2
The hard drive of the future has been swimming through our veins all along
Catalog DNA Data Storage
Could cellular seafood take pressure off Earth’s overfished oceans?
Cellular Seafood BlueNalu
Climate change is killing coffee farms, so Atomo is brewing it without beans
climate change is killing coffee farms so atomo brewing it without beans press orange fb
Making meat out of thin air? Impossible. But this startup does it anyway
Air Protein tacos on a plate
Hacking photosynthesis: Could artificial leaves fuel the future?
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Low-Earth orbit is overcrowded. This Silicon Valley startup has a solution
Space Debris
Human Screenome Project wants you to share everything you do on your smartphone
Child Using Smartphone
How SETI@home accelerated alien hunting with an army of armchair astronomers
Arecibo