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Five world-changing ideas – in charts

By Miriam Quick / Illustrations by Rebecca Zhou

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Could your next home be a fake island?

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Electronic waste is rising sharply across Asia as higher incomes allow hundreds of millions of people to buy smartphones and other gadgets (Credit: Getty)

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An eco-friendly way to make smartphones

By Sophia Smith Galer

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How we’ll fight the end of antibiotics

By Erin Biba

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The villages transformed by solar power

By Rachel Nuwer

A trunk sewer technician holds a 'fatberg' as he works in the intersection of the Regent Street and Victoria sewer in London (Credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)

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The surprising benefits of 'fatbergs'

By Richard Gray

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Four clever ways to deal with rubbish

By Bryan Lufkin

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Could we tap water from thin air?

By Bryan Lufkin

Here's what a cargo ship remote-controlled by a human half a world away could look like. A certain degree of automation could cut costs spent on crew. (Credit: Wärtsilä)

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The ships that will change the seas

By Chris Baraniuk

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The surprising ways AI protects us

By Richard Gray

Cross-breeding wild vegetables with their cultivated counterparts on the farm could create a hybrid super-veggie resilient to pests and disease (Credit: LM Salazar / Crop Trust)

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The 'super plants' with amazing powers

By Sophia Smith Galer

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33 ideas that will change the world

By Bryan Lufkin

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The ideas that will save the world

By Bryan Lufkin

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