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September 14, 2020

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Volunteer armies map 'invisible' communities hit by coronavirus

Communities are using open source tools to help contain the coronavirus by mapping hand-washing stations and those at risk

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Recent Articles

Theresa Fyffe speaks at TED2025 in Vancouver.

A new lifeline for the world's coral reefs

Wawira Njiru, founder and CEO of Food4Education, at a "giga kitchen" in Nairobi, Kenya. (Edwin Ndeke)

Humanitarian aid for Africa is drying up. It’s hard but I see an opportunity to build something better

Opinion piece by Wawira Njiru, the founder and CEO of Food4Education, a social enterprise scaling sustainable school feeding programs in Africa.

Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Credit...

Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.

Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

Two whales talking

Are Whales Trying to Tell Us Something?