Sustainable Development

A New Type Of Dune Has Been Found On Mars

Led by Caltech planetary geologist Mathieu Lapôtre, the new research confirmed the existence of this third type of “bedform,” the term for sedimentary struct...

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Humans Are Now Causing Species To Artificially Evolve

But man-made ecological damage doesn’t always come in the form of extinctions. Instead of succumbing to the pressures of human activity, some species are rapidly evolvin...

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Light Pollution Is Throwing Off The Seasons

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers describe how night-time light pollution is causing early budburst—emergence o...

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Facebook Hack Shows It’s Time To Upgrade Our Method Of Verifying Identity

On Monday, a Facebook user lost control of his personal account, as well as several business pages, for almost a full day, after a hacker was able to convince Facebook to chan...

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We Can’t Count On Geoengineering To Save Us From Climate Change, Scientists Warn

In December, governments around the world got together and grandly agreed to limit global warming to below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels—with a preference for keeping...

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It's Safe To Eat These 4 Crops Grown In 'Martian Soil'

Since 2013, a Dutch researcher has successfully been cultivating crops and wild plant varieties in a soil that closely resembles that from the red planet and the moon. Now lab...

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Business And Academic Leaders Urge New Conversation About Coal-Free Future

They also say the public may not realise it but a carbon price has already been built into Australia’s economy with the Turnbull government’s decision, at the Pari...

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A Solar-Powered Plane Has Completed The First Ever Trans-Atlantic Flight

Setting off from New York at 2:30 AM on June 20, 2016, pilot Bertrand Piccard spent a total of 71 hours and 8 minutes in the air, flying at 28,000 feet and covering a distance...

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Wild Transhumanist Campaign Tech We’ll See In Future Presidential Elections

But the near future will be even more complex, with virtual reality, wearable tech, and holographic imagery all part of the show. The entire way a candidate runs for the presi...

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Why Haven't We Explored The Ocean Like Outer Space?

Only five percent of the seafloor has been topographically imaged, which leaves 65 percent of the entire planet (not counting land masses) relatively unknown. Yet, since the d...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: TOPSHE FOREVER

On the fiftieth anniversary of Sonar Kella, Siddhartha Chatterjee Reflects on Topshe, Sa...

December 27 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: A VISIONARY LEADER AND ECONOMIST

Dr. Manmohan Singh, India’s transformative economist and statesman, leaves behind ...

December 27 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: THE ALPHA PUP

"Decoding Kids' Pester Power: Exploring Their Influence on Consumer Decisions and the Ch...

December 26 2024