Grand Ideas

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Grand Ideas

Five world-changing ideas – in charts

By Miriam Quick / Illustrations by Rebecca Zhou

Artificial islands
Grand Ideas
Could your next home be a fake island?
Electronic waste is rising sharply across Asia as higher incomes allow hundreds of millions of people to buy smartphones and other gadgets (Credit: Getty)
Grand Ideas
An eco-friendly way to make smartphones
By Sophia Smith Galer
Estonia
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The first ‘digital’ country?
By Bryan Lufkin
Antibiotic resistance
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How we’ll fight the end of antibiotics
By Erin Biba
(Credit: BBOXX)
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The villages transformed by solar power
By Rachel Nuwer
A trunk sewer technician holds a 'fatberg' as he works in the intersection of the Regent Street and Victoria sewer in London (Credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)
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The surprising benefits of 'fatbergs'
By Richard Gray
Rubbish
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Four clever ways to deal with rubbish
By Bryan Lufkin
(Credit: NS International)
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The trains that run on wind
By Bryan Lufkin
India traffic
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How to tame overcrowded roads
By Edd Gent
Water ensures political stability because countries must share bordering water sources and export crops and food that require water to grow (Credit: Getty Images)
Grand Ideas
Could we tap water from thin air?
By Bryan Lufkin
Here's what a cargo ship remote-controlled by a human half a world away could look like. A certain degree of automation could cut costs spent on crew. (Credit: Wärtsilä)
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The ships that will change the seas
By Chris Baraniuk
(Credit: Isaac Lawrence/Getty Images)
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The surprising ways AI protects us
By Richard Gray
Cross-breeding wild vegetables with their cultivated counterparts on the farm could create a hybrid super-veggie resilient to pests and disease (Credit: LM Salazar / Crop Trust)
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The 'super plants' with amazing powers
By Sophia Smith Galer
Grand Ideas (Credit: Alamy)
Grand Ideas
The ideas that will save the world
By Bryan Lufkin
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