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Talking signs, amazing peas and planes mapping fires

Innovative solutions for city navigation, plastic waste and forest fires

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How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone

Mobile phones and apps are being used to detect fake medicines and save lives

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Ways to save the planet: Ancient solutions

We could save 16% of emissions by using biochar, a simple indigenous fertilising method

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COP26: The tech helping you to help the planet

New technology that could lead to better informed choices on climate change

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The 15-minute city

Everything you need on your doorstep: a radical plan to improve our cities

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The tiny satellites changing how we see Earth

CubeSats are small but mighty. They track animals, map coral reefs and spot modern slavery

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Ways to save the planet: Using the sun

Using floating solar panels and a see-through pyramid to help the climate

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Food waste: The solar dryer solution

A simple system for saving food and empowering women

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How to make electricity for your neighbours

The energy microgrid that started with scrap metal and an old bicycle

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Creating an alternative gig economy

Meet the innovators who want to change gig work for the better

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The moo loo and other stories

Training cows to use the toilet and a bouncy castle that fights climate change

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Catching up with our solution seekers

How are Covid dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming the internet getting on?

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Making clean water with rubbish

The chemist using old bones and food waste to make clean drinking water

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How to fight fake health news

Can playing a video game 鈥榠noculate鈥� your mind against medical misinformation?

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Using VR to change lives

How virtual reality is helping tackle phobias and resolve conflict

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The house that fights malaria

Innovative ideas in the battle against mosquitos

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Training police to patrol each other

How do you get officers to step in to prevent acts of police brutality?

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Violent partners: The 鈥榳indow鈥� strategy

How Iceland pioneered a new approach to domestic violence

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Insects fixing the world

How flies and bugs can help solve the planet鈥檚 problems

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Using haircuts to fight oil spills

An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.

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Making hospitals less stressful

How leaves, lights, sounds and goats can improve patient health

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How to make fishing nets less destructive

Using underwater sounds and lights so only the fish we want to eat get caught

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Saving California鈥檚 butterflies

How rearing butterflies by hand is bringing them back from the brink

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Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

The entrepreneurs using clever chemistry to turn scrap rubber into fuel and car tyres

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Sponge cities that fight flooding

How cities are embracing nature to prevent flooding

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Work: Access for all

We look at workplaces that have welcomed people with learning disabilities on to the team

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Using lotteries to make us better people

The lotteries that nudge people to take medicine, pick up litter or pay their taxes

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Robots fixing sewers

The robots that navigate sewer pipes to find leaks and blockages so people don't have to

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Turning mud into 鈥榗lean鈥� concrete

The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings

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Helping teenagers become good mums

Innovative projects around the world are trying to help teenage mums

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