Article detailsPrimary domain: Clinical & Healthcare Innovation (Patient Engagement)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Generative AI)Article type: Pilot & ImplementationTechnology: Generative AI voice assistantInnovation maturity: Early AdoptionMission: ClinicalBusiness impact: Could ease follow-up workload in understaffed fracture liaison servicesAudience: Clinical, IT, Business/LeadershipPublication date: November 2026Author / Contributor: Innovation tea...
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Tamu Massif, the “World’s Largest Single Volcano”.
After 36 days of battling sharks that kept biting their equipment, scientists have returned from the remote Pacific Ocean with a new way of looking at the world’s largest and possibly most mysterious volcano, Tamu Massif. The team has begun making 3-D maps that offer the clearest look yet at the underwater mountain, which covers an area the size of New Mexico. In the coming months, the maps will be refined and the data analyzed, with the ultimate goal of figuring out how the mountain was formed....
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VISTA pinpoints earliest giant galaxies
ESO’s VISTA survey telescope has spied a horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy. By discovering and studying more of these galaxies than ever before, astronomers have, for the first time, found out exactly when such monster galaxies first appeared. Just counting the number of galaxies in a patch of sky provides a way to test astronomers’ theories of galaxy formation and evolution. However, such a simple task becomes increasingly hard as astr...
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An inside look at the Big Bang.
The Large Hadron Collider began its second run of experiments in June after a two-year hiatus from being the world’s largest particle accelerator. And the results are promising, achieving the highest energy ever achieved in a laboratory by colliding subatomic particles at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV), physicists hope that these high-energy collisions may produce entirely new particles and simulate conditions seen in the early universe, according to an MIT statement.Soon to be published in Physics ...
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Oxygen found on Comet
For the first time ever, molecular oxygen has been found on a comet. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, currently being orbited by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, is the subject of a study published in Nature. According to ESA researchers, the oxygen present in the comet's surrounding gasses has likely been there since the formation of the comet. "It is the most surprising discovery we have made so far, because oxygen was not among the molecules expected in a cometary coma," the Un...
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Bloodhound: World’s fastest racing car.
The supersonic car built to smash the current land speed record has been unveiled in London. Its top speed is more than 1,000mph an hour which is faster than a speeding bullet, and it is powered by Rolls-Royce jet engines and a rocket.
The Bloodhound is part of a £40m project spearheaded by Richard Noble, a man who held the record between 1983-1997 at 633.4mph, to break the land speed record. Noble's record was beaten by RAF fighter pilot Andy Green in 1997, who hit more than 763mph. Now work...
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WiFi Nomiku is the world’s first WiFi-enabled immersion circulator
Nomiku allows a temperature-controlled way of cooking conveniently at your home.
WiFi Nomiku, the world’s first WiFi-connected immersion circulator is a convenient device for sous-vide cooking with a small footprint, a large screen for displaying recipes, Wi-Fi connectivity to allow communication between chefs and has an app that’s both iOS and Android compatible.
Sous vide is the method of cooking vacuum-sealed food in a controlled low-temperature water bath. It is a top chef's secret wea...
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Canberra schoolboy William Grame wins trip to NASA for diabetes test-strip invention
William Grame's invention to dispose of diabetics blood testing strips, has won the 11-year-old a trip to NASA. William's invention is a small, plastic disposal unit that fits into testing kits used by diabetics. Diabetics can feed strips into it throughout the day, and dispose them all when it gets full. William has 3D-printed a device that safely stores diabetes test strips. It is well established that diabetes wreaks havoc on people's blood sugar levels, but one thing we don't usually think a...
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Stanford team combines logic, memory to build a ‘high-rise’ chip.
Stanford researchers are building layers of logic and memory into skyscraper chips that are smaller, faster, cheaper and taller. They have created a four-layer prototype high-rise chip in which the bottom and top layers are logic transistors. Sandwiched between them are two layers of memory. The vertical tubes are nanoscale electronic "elevators" that connect logic and memory, allowing them to work together to solve problems.
The circuit cards are like busy cities in which logic chips compute...
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Paralyzed man walks again after cell transplant
The world's first cell transplant enables paralyzed man to walk.
A ground-breaking cell transplant, the world's first, was carried out by surgeons in Poland in collaboration with scientists in London on Darek Fidyka who was paralyzed from the chest down after a brutal knife attack in 2010 left with an 8mm gap in his spinal column. He showed no sign of recovery despite many months of intensive physiotherapy.
Darek's injuries were so severe that no level of therapy could give him feeling bac...
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The Giant Magellan Telescope
Imagine looking into space using this super-giant telescope.
With a gigantic 39-meter aperture, the Giant Magellan Telescope is a super-giant earth-based telescope that promises to revolutionize our view and understanding of the universe.
It will be constructed at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile and is expected to take 10 years to build.
The GMT has a unique design that offers several advantages. It is a segmented mirror telescope that will use seven of the world's largest mirrors...
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Vertical Farming
An eco-friendly architectural concept for cultivating food within skyscrapers.
Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist and professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, is credited with popularizing the concept of vertical farming.
It is estimated that over the next four decades, our population will increase by 3 billion people and that 80% of us will be living in cities
Many scientists are concerned that the amount of land required to feed us in the future will not be...
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Amazing Batteries that Run on Any Liquid
A new, “organic” battery has been invented which generates a charge within 10 seconds and will last anywhere from two days to a week depending on the liquid.
The world’s first chlorophyll organic battery has been invented by Chungpin Liao, a professor at the Graduate School of Electro-Optic and Material Science of National Formosa University in Taiwan.
He claims that his battery can be filled up with almost anything, including water and urine, and it can provide electricity from two to sev...
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Horizontal Showers Enhance Showering Experience
A horizontal shower provides, for the first time, a reclining shower experience.
Imagine if you could extend your nap time by a precious 10 minutes or so when you wake up. Most of us can barely muster the energy to get out of bed and go into the shower in the morning. German company Dornbracht has actually made this possible by creating a device called the Horizontal Shower which washes you while you are lying down.
The shower looks like a tanning bed mounted to the wall with an array of s...
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Skyscraper Uses Built-In Wind Turbines for Energy
Bahrain is the home of the first skyscraper to have wind turbines integrated into the structure of the building.
The Bahrain World Trade Center is a 50-story twin tower complex containing two identical towers that rise over 240 meters in height. The sail-shaped buildings offer a visually striking image and boasts of one its very unique feature which is the 3 giant wind turbines tying the two “sails” together.
It is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines into its desig...
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World’s first 3D-printed electric car
Order and pick up your customized personal car. That's the vision of Arizona-based company Local Motors.
Local Motors plans to transform the traditional automotive world with the launch of a three dimensional (3D) printed car next year. Strati is an electric car developed by Local Motors and manufactured in collaboration with Cincinnati Incorporated and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It is made from ABS plastic that has been enforced with carbon fibre.
The car was manufactured using a Larg...
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Tires That Cannot Go Flat
Biomimicry, the science that imitates nature to create new products, is the field responsible for new, airless, tubeless, tires that cannot go flat.
Resilient Technologies, a Wisconsin based company, is behind this invention. The inspiration for the design of the tire was found in nature: the honeycomb. Instead of using a pressurized air cavity, the tire design relies on a geometric pattern of six-sided cells that are arranged in a matrix like a honeycomb.
The tire has uniform flexibility ...
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