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Industrial

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Water spray systems that protect fire trucks and fire fighters
Water spray systems, tested by CSIRO and evolved by state fire authorities, are providing a lifeline for fire trucks and firefighters caught in the fire.https://blog.csiro.au/fire-tested-systems-help-crews-survive-truck-burnovers/
20 January 2020 by IdeaSpies

Artistic

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19 January 2020 by IdeaSpies

Climate

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Whales help fight climate change
They are majestic, massive and mysterious - and they could hold a secret for combating climate change. Now, researchers have put a price on the value that whales bring to the world.https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/whales-carbon-capture-climate-change/
18 January 2020 by IdeaSpies

Healthcare

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Science breakthrough to help stop dengue
Scientists from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, and the University of California San Diego have engineered the first breed of genetically modified mosquitoes resistant to spreading all four types of the dengue virus.Dengue-resistant mosquitoes were give a red-eye gene to distinguish them from regular mosquitoes.https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/Science-breakthrough-on-curbing-dengue
17 January 2020 by IdeaSpies

AgTech

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Food dropped from the sky to feed hungry Australian wildlife
Aircraft are being used to feed the thousands of hungry wildlife stranded amid the Australian bushfire crisis.The New South Wales government has started doing food-drops, trickling thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potato from above to feed the state's colonies of brush-trailed rock wallabies.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7877213/Food-supply-thousands-animals-trapped-Mallacoota-flown-planes-help-wombats-koalas.html
15 January 2020 by IdeaSpies

Artistic

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A fish that eats plastic bottles
It began with “Yoshi the Fish” (pictured) on Malpe Beach, Mangaluru, India. The sculpture was spotted on social media by management of a holiday resort in Bali, who thought it an excellent idea, and they replicated it on their site with a fish named “Goby” www.intelligentliving.co/yoshi-goby-fish-eating-plastic
12 January 2020 by IdeaSpies