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- The World Health Organisation has now recommended the widespread rollout of the RTS,S Malaria vaccine to children aged five months or older living across sub-Saharan Africa.
- China’s Chang’e-5 mission recently unveiled new evidence that the last volcanic activity to take place on the Moon was much more recent than previously thought.
- Drawing on ‘atmospheric water generation’ technology, hydropanels are using solar power to extract clean water in a variety of climates, with potential to boost supplies of drinking water in areas of scarcity.
- A company has harnessed NASA technology to create the ‘space-aged tyre’, ultra-durable, uber-elastic and super long-lasting tyres that are set to transform the performance of cars on and off the road.
- A farmyard in Buckinghamshire is zapping its cow manure with a plasma gun in a bid to break down the toxic climate-heating elements of methane and ammonia to produce pure nitrogen, to be used as fertiliser.
- Fifty-five small, four-wheeled AI robots are being tasked with speeding up Greece’s postal delivery system, easing the high demand on workers that has resulted from increased online orders during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Doctors have successfully performed lifechanging brain transplant surgery to treat depression, in which a ‘neutral pacemaker’ device is installed to detect negative brain activity and to reset an individual’s thought pattern with targeted electrical pulses.
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