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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.

Space Debris

Low-Earth orbit is overcrowded. This Silicon Valley startup has a solution

Silicon Valley space-tracking startup LeoLabs is using radar to track what's happening in Low Earth Orbit. Here's what technology LeoLabs has developed to help.
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Launching little: Inside Rocket Lab’s ingenious plan to democratize space

Arecibo

How SETI@home accelerated alien hunting with an army of armchair astronomers

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Climate change is killing coffee farms, so Atomo is brewing it without beans

Animal skulls on shelf

Minority Report for poachers: Can predictive algorithms prevent wildlife crime?

Einride Self-Driving Transport Vehicle

Drivers needed (sort of): Einride wants remote pilots for its driverless pods

Catalog DNA Data Storage

The hard drive of the future has been swimming through our veins all along

Air Protein tacos on a plate

Making meat out of thin air? Impossible. But this startup does it anyway

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VR is making medical training cheaper, better, and more accessible than ever

Cellular Seafood BlueNalu

Could cellular seafood take pressure off Earth’s overfished oceans?

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Hacking photosynthesis: Could artificial leaves fuel the future?

Child Using Smartphone

Human Screenome Project wants you to share everything you do on your smartphone