2023

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we’ll be able to spray all sorts of things onto surfaces, from sensors and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this virtual keynote session for the Malaysian Securities Commission futurist Matthew Griffin explores the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Slime robots can go places that other robots can’t and could have valuable applications in…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Magnetorestrictive materials might not be commonplace, but now they’re helping China’s latest generation of stealth…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are times when you want to know exactly how a sound is being formed…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Over 2,500 children eat batteries each year and some die, edible batteries could prevent that,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF CRISPR is a world changing gene editing technology, and AI just found another 200 systems…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything is made of compounds and materials, and by discovering and inventing almost 400,000 new…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF OpenAI have been hiding a new development, but until they clarify what it is the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are getting closer to being able to create organisms that are 100% synthetic DNA…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nature, and evolution, is more chaotic than first thought, but this new breakthrough opens up…