Recycled CO2 shoes with no carbon footprint

A New York product development firm creates a "footprintless" shoe from recycled CO2 to showcase progressive, new ways to capture gaseous waste from power plants. Elly Park reports.

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Test for carbon monoxide in the body could help diagnose disease

A quick and reliable way of detecting carbon monoxide gas in the body could act as an early warning system for doctors trying to diagnose diseases, according to researchers in London. Stuart McDill has more.

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Are Trump's tweets a U.S. Constitutional question?

A federal judge on Thursday expressed skepticism on whether or not U.S. President Donald Trump can block Twitter users whose views he does not like.

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Olympic hack shows new threat in cyber crime

Kaspersky researchers reported on Thursday that the "Olympic Destroyer" computer virus used to attack the Pyeongchang Winter Games was embedded with fake digital fingerprints to make investigators believe the attack was done by hackers linked to North Korea.

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Robot avatar Walk-Man debuts slimmer, quicker physique

A new and improved version of the humanoid robot Walk-Man is tested as a robotic avatar for supporting emergency response teams, as Matthew Stock reports.

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Unbreakable phone screen prototype will smash competition, say creators

University of Sussex scientists have devised a new way to make smartphone touch screens cheaper and less breakable, while improving their environmental footprint. Jim Drury reports.

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Graphene brain implant could turn thoughts into speech

Wonder material graphene is helping scientists build brain implants to decode neural signals and then send them to a speech synthesiser. Matthew Stock reports.

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