Sustainable Development

Tests Show We Could Build A Humongous Gravitational Wave Detector In Space

LISA Pathfinder is a super-nerdy (and super-exciting) mission to test the tech that will go into building a huge gravitational wave observatory affectionately known as LISA (L...

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A Health App's AI Took On Human Doctors To Triage Patients

Two decades on from artificial intelligencebeating chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, AI is proving it can do some conventionally human jobs. One UK-based health app now hopes ...

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American Scientists Want To Manufacture Synthetic Human Genomes

It’s only been 13 years since scientists at National Human Genome Research Institute finished sequencing the human genome, but now another group of American scientists a...

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Europe Is About To Make Some Big Decisions On Net Neutrality

A draft of those guidelines leaked online ahead of BEREC's announcement on Monday, and while the rules show promise, they leave much to be desired in the minds of net neutrali...

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This Is What The Most Powerful Ground Telescope On Earth Will Look Like

There has arguably never been a project in astronomical history as aptly named as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), imagined in all its behemoth glory in this ne...

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Your Regular Doctors’ Checkup Could Soon Include A Scan Of Your Brain Waves

In fact, in the near future, Ryan D’Arcy told me, all doctors should be monitoring brain waves, alongside more standard clinical vital signs of patients, healthy and oth...

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A Universal Cancer Vaccine Might Be Closer Than You Think

There are so many cancers and so many things that can work in concert or independently to increase a person's cancer risk—to say nothing of the sheer scope and scale of ...

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How Worried Should We Be About The 'Nightmare Bacteria' Making Headlines?

 “It’s not that this bacteria is highly transmissible,” said Dr. Emil Lesho, director of WRAIR’s Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surve...

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Bitcoin ATMs Are Popular With The Unbanked, But The Regulatory Future Is Unclear

A trend is emerging in the Bitcoin ATM industry. Demand for the services among the underbanked and unbanked has seen steady growth in the two years since the industry’s ...

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All European Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

The European Union member states want to ensure that all scientific articles are freely accessible by 2020 so that anyone can optimally reuse research data.At the meeting of t...

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FESTIVALS: A JOURNEY INTO NATURE AND ABSTRACTION

Discover the hidden beauty of nature through Gerardo Korn’s transformative art at ...

January 15 2025

THOUGHT FACTORY: BOMBAY IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT 2.0

Sharad Raj remembers the vibrant yet gritty nights of 90s Mumbai, reflecting on its tran...

January 14 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: YASSA KHAN’S BOLD NARRATIVES

Filmmaker Yassa Khan shares his journey from graphic design to cinema, creating deeply p...

January 12 2025