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If an asteroid threat emerged, Earth would need to be ready. Scientists are continually working to give the planet the best range of defensive strategies. : Michael Joiner, 360 info CC BY 4.0

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With NASA announcing an asteroid is on a possible collision course with Earth 23 years from now, 360info looks at the planet’s early warning systems.
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Deflecting asteroids

How to stop space rocks hitting Earth

With NASA announcing an asteroid is on a possible collision course with Earth 23 years from now, 360info looks at the planet’s early warning systems.

Science
India’s One Nation, One Subscription plan would give public libraries like this access to the worlds top scholarly journals. : raghavvidya, Flickr CC 2.0

With rising fees for research journals, India is pressing ahead with a nation-wide subscription to allow more people to access science.

Science for all

India-wide subscription to research journals paves path for Global South

With rising fees for research journals, India is pressing ahead with a nation-wide subscription to allow more people to access science.

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Financial barriers posed by global publishing houses have inspired African scholars to find new ways of sharing information. : University of Cape Town CC 4.0

Attempts to more fairly share scientific knowledge have had the opposite effect in Africa. But a new initiative is bringing true equity.

Science for all

How Africa is overcoming ‘knowledge colonialism’

Attempts to more fairly share scientific knowledge have had the opposite effect in Africa. But a new initiative is bringing true equity.

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Researchers can’t progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and their fees has begun.

Science for all

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

Science
Meet Pepper, a semi-humanoid robot used in social robotics research. Pepper can interact with people through speech, gestures and an integrated tablet. Pepper is currently being used in projects such as robots in public space by Monash University. : Shanti Sumartojo, Monash University

New cities should not be built to cater for robots and technology; instead robots must adapt to live with humans in existing cities.

Robot cities

There’s only so much a robot can do

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Robots can help farmers optimise agricultural production and promote sustainable farming practices. : Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash Unsplash License

The lines of ethical principles are often blurred when it comes to embracing ubiquitous machines.

Robot cities

Governing a world of 250 million robots

Human Interest
Wheat, grown in vast fields, cannot easily be protected by glasshouses : Dag Endresen CC 2.0

As climate change enters uncharted territory, we will need all the skills of the past, and some from the future, to keep feeding the world.

Science against the clock

Future food depends on the cutting edge

Environment
Rhinolophus sinicus (Chinese horseshoe bat) was found to harbour SARS-Cov-1 : Yu Ching Tam CC 4.0

Even mismatched vaccines could confer some immunity against related coronaviruses. To prepare for the next pandemic, the world could build a vaccine library.

Science against the clock

Bat scan could insure against future pandemics

Health
Family members are often the first to realise there’s more going on in the brain of a patient. : Alexander Grey/Unsplash Unsplash license

Brain-machine interfaces can decipher thoughts and help give some coma survivors a voice. But first we must ensure they’re responsive.

Brain–machine interfaces

Communicating with seemingly unconscious patients

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