💉 The body's own "message in a bottle" can provide better cancer treatment
Nanoparticles that the body's cells use to communicate can give the immune system a better chance of fighting cancer tumors.
💸 Wishing Well gives money to the poor
The money that tourists throw into the Trevi Fountain goes to help the poor in Rome.
🧬 Gene profiling can help cancer patients avoid unnecessary radiotherapy
A gene profile can show which breast cancer patients do not need radiation after breast conserving surgery.
🔬 Easier to predict if a cancer treatment is effective
A new method could help doctors know in advance which cancer drugs will work best for each patient.
🦈 Drones will protect surfers from sharks - and sharks from people
Drones can detect sharks long before they pose a danger to surfers and swimmers and reduce the risk of sharks becoming entangled and dying in safety nets around beaches.
🏭 3M stops making harmful "forever chemicals"
The risk of having to pay large damage compensations causes 3M to abandon the manufacture of the "forever chemicals" PFAS, which can remain in nature for a thousand years or more.
📳 Anger issues can be managed with internet therapy
One month of internet therapy can help people with anger issues.
⛴ IKEA reduces emissions with home delivery by boat
By shipping its home deliveries via river barge as far as possible, IKEA can both lower its emissions and make more deliveries in Paris.
🌊 Building the world's largest facility for wave power
A wave power plant in Ordu in Turkey is to become the largest land-based plant in the world.