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- By Greg Williams
- 24 September 2012
Ferran Adrià closed the world’s most lauded restaurant to open a foundation for innovation. What can a chef teach the world about working smarter? »
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- By Ekow Eshun
- 18 September 2012
Avalanches travel at 130kph and kill 300 people a year. That’s why, deep in the swiss alps, scientists are turning to lasers, CT scans and wind tunnels to understand snow better »
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- By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
- 30 August 2012
In which our correspondent travels to Japan in search of the living, purring, singing heart of the online cat-industrial complex »
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- By David Rowan
- 22 August 2012
Hiroshi Mikitani founded online marketplace Rakuten and built it into the nation’s biggest internet retailer, bought Buy.com, Play.com, the Kobo e-reader and a large chunk of Pinterest, and now he’s going global »
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- By Rachel Botsman
- 20 August 2012
Your every online transaction requires you to establish your trustworthiness. That’s why your personal reputation dashboard will soon matter more than your credit record »
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- By Caitlin Roper
- 16 August 2012
Like Aardman Animation's The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, ParaNorman uses a 3D printer to create its puppets' faces »
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- By Pete Guest
- 06 August 2012
There are a billion Africans -- most are young, and among them are undiscovered geniuses. Neil Turok is determined to find and help these people -- by rethinking what a university is »
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- By Frederick Kaufman
- 02 August 2012
A team of former McDonald’s head honchos is transforming what fast food can be: responsible, healthy, sustainable and delicious »
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- By Chris Anderson
- 26 July 2012
With cheap sensors, off-the-shelf parts and free software, now anyone can have a personal flying robot »
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- By Madhumita Venkataramanan
- 25 July 2012
Where does an over-crammed science museum store its surplus nuclear missiles and jet planes? In a quiet Wiltshire field… »
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- By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
- 19 July 2012
When heroin users in Scotland began dying from a powerful infection, public health officials were alarmed to discover the culprit was anthrax. The deaths provoked a desperate hunt for the source, involving the police, microbiologists and bioweaponeers »
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- By Neal Pollack
- 16 July 2012
In silicon valley, it’s no longer the software engineer who’s the rock star -– it’s the data scientist. For startups such as Kaggle, which aims to solve big-data problems, that means a golden opportunity »
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- By Noah Shachtman
- 13 July 2012
Wired looks at the different ways drones are being used in everyday situations around the world »
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- By Steven Levy
- 05 July 2012
When Jack Dorsey invented Twitter, he changed how we communicate. Now he's transforming how we spend money »
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- By Joao Medeiros
- 26 June 2012
Performance analysis and the science of skill acquisition are transforming competitive sports »
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- By Ted Greenwald
- 18 June 2012
If Ries can keep the movement yoked to the scientific method, it might just isolate principles that steer firms toward real, lasting, massive success »
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- By Sebastian Seung
- 14 June 2012
Sebastian Sung is a neuroscientist with a bold new theory on how brain connections make us who we are »
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- By Tom Cheshire
- 06 June 2012
Markus ‘Notch’ Persson’s Minecraft is a blocky video game with no rules -– but it has humbled a £40-billion industry »