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October 28, 2019
Fenced off by a wall of trees, about 20 km from the high rises towering over Dubai’s city centre, there lies a small solar-powered settlement aiming to become a green oasis in the desert. Renowned for its glitzy skyscrapers, air-conditioning-blasting shopping malls and indoor skiing facilities, the emirate of Dubai has long been the antithesis...
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Considerable energy is being devoted to research and pilot projects determined to prove whether blockchain, a secure digital ledger technology that can collect data across partner ecosystems, along with other smart contracting and digital identification technologies, will be crucial for shifting to a circular, inclusive economy. Indeed, a growing number of businesses ranging from IBM...
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Biology is an astonishing builder. Think of the complexity and organization required to construct a giant redwood, or to form the extreme tensile strength of a spider web, or the on-mass ability of ancient microbes to change the Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists today are harnessing this building power in the field of engineering biology to achieve...
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