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NITI Aayog To Soon Unveil Policy On Important Sectors
Taking forward its project of creating a national agenda in consultation with the states, the NITI Aayog will soon come out with policy papers on critical sectors such as agri...
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A Low Carbon Future Is Possible
At Paris this week in the hottest year in recorded history, there are expectations that a global legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be adopted fo...
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What Happens If Someone Uses This DIY Gene Hacking Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria?
The campaign, called "DIY CRISPR Kits, Learn Modern Science By Doing" was started by Josiah Zayner, a synthetic biologist and research fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. It ...
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Engineers Combine Biological Energy-Harvesting With Electronic Circuits
Previous experiments have accomplished similar-sounding schemes—energy harvested within an inner-ear, tree-powered nanoelectronics—but with the critical limitation...
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Kickstarter Is Funding Investigative Journalism (About a Failed Kickstarter)
Kickstarter has commissioned tech journalist Mark Harris to investigate and report on one of the company’s most high-profile failed campaigns to date: the ...
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Global Restrictions On Farm Antibiotics Needed To Fight Superbugs, Report Says
There?s no denying the link between the overuse of antibiotics on farm animals and the development of antibiotic resistance, according to a new report commissioned by UK Prime...
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A Japanese Probe That Was Lost In Space For 5 Years Has Finally Made It To Venus
Back in 2010, Akatsuki was launched into space to study the surface of Venus. While the spacecraft reached the planet on 7 December 2010, it didn’t quite enter orbi...
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Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel
Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space junk a...
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This Space Mission Could Upend Our Basic Notions of Newtonian Gravity
Sir Isaac Newton probably didn't get conked on the head by a falling apple, but by many, if not most accounts, there was an apple and it did fall in his presence. Having witne...
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Google Just Turned Android Smartphones Into Amateur VR Cameras
Google today released a new Android app called Cardboard Camera that lets users take VR photos with their smartphone, which are then viewable in the company’s ...
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