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These mirrored placards give peaceful protesters a means of protection

Nikolas Bentel’s reflective protest signs for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. >
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter

New MOMA exhibition investigates the design & infrastructure of modern refugee camps. >
Photographer captures the vulnerability in nature as it intersects with science

Ornithological Photographs explores our need to know, name and quantify diversity. >
Me, Myself and You is a board game to help Autistic adults make friends

The multiplayer board game designed to facilitate social connections between those on the spectrum. >
Innovative capsule achieves long-term drug delivery

This drug capsule offers an alternative to daily doses of medication >
New stick on patch uses sweat to monitor your health

The soft, flexible skin patch that can inspect your perspiration while you work out. >
The EMPWR coat rolls out into a sleeping bag to keep homeless people warm

Water resistant, the jacket can also be converted into and worn as an over-the-shoulder bag. >
The goofy vertical vehicle

Getting from A to B in a vertical, electrical transportation system that you built yourself. >
Cyborg insects map out disaster zones

Drawing virtual images of unsafe areas with miniature flying robots. >
Recyclable helmet wins International James Dyson Award

The collapsible EcoHelmet makes safety a convenience. >
The Homeless Studio explores how architecture can help address homelessness

This student-led project creates innovative homes for Los Angeles’ most vulnerable. >
Athi-Patra Ruga debuts new performance piece at Performa 17 Biennale in New York

Dismantling the myth of the ‘Rainbow Nation’ through performance art. >
Smart streetlights powered by pedestrian footsteps

Clean-tech startup EnGoPlanet harnesses kinetic energy to potentially power cities around the world. >
RoboBees and the future of pollination

Are scientists about to replace bees? >
The untapped light & utility of plants

Turning plants into sources of energy and light. >
Standing Rock: A documentary of resistance in the US

A fracked oil pipeline sparks the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to lead the biggest indigenous protest in 100 years. >
Photo book explores the fallout after Hurricane Sandy

A New York based photographer will soon release a photo book that explores a family’s journey to recovery after Hurricane Sandy. >
What if your teeth could heal themselves?

These biosynthetic tooth fillings could mean the end of root canals. >
Politics in black and white: The rise of Donald Trump in pictures

Photojournalist Mark Peterson’s Instagram is a live feed of the American political circus. >
Sunflare develops the world’s first stick-on solar paneling

The new ultra-thin solar wallpaper can be applied to just about anything. >
Vibrant art installation uplifts San Antonio airport

Gabriel Dawe completes his latest public art project. >
MIT scientists engineer spinach to detect explosives

This research team has found a way to infuse the vegetable with super powers. >
MIT breaks new ground with “soft” aeroplane wing

The lightweight structure is a modular, flexible advancement in the field of soft robotics. >
The magnetic ink that heals itself

Engineers developed electronic circuits that are able to recover from damage independently. >

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