--- --- # This Device Can Help Beat Malaria by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 16, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 16, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This device could transform how we detect — and help us beat — malaria.**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-device-could-revolutionize-how-malaria-detected-around-world-180961385/) By Randy Rieland in Smithsonian **2\.** [**2016 was another banner year for military waste. Can it be stopped?**](https://warisboring.com/heres-how-the-military-wasted-your-money-in-2016-81bbc217c662#.9vvid9uzy) By Matthew Gault in War Is Boring **3\.** [**There’s another big window for learning after childhood.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/theres-another-big-window-for-learning-after-childhood.html) By Drake Baer in the Science of Us **4\.** [**Can science engineer a less allergic peanut?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/magazine/is-it-possible-to-make-a-less-allergenic-peanut.html) By Roxanne Khamsi in New York Times Magazine **5\.** [**This is why people overshare on the internet.**](http://daily.jstor.org/full-disclosure-say-much-write-online/) By Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ This Device Can Help Beat Malaria ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4604709/this-device-can-help-beat-malaria/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4604709/this-device-can-help-beat-malaria/"},"headline":"This Device Can Help Beat Malaria","datePublished":"2016-12-16T17:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:13.795Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4604709/this-device-can-help-beat-malaria/","keywords":["Innovation","Military","Internet","Education","Malaria","allergies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4604709/this-device-can-help-beat-malaria/","name":"This Device Can Help Beat Malaria"}}]}] ```