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This App Helps Citizens Report Deadly Mosquito Sightings

For the past two years, Spanish citizens have been using an app dubbed ‘Mosquito Alert’ to report sightings and breeding grounds of Aedes albopictus, or Tiger m...

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Alternative Entertainment

Reinventing L.A. Street By Street

In major cities, streets are thought of mainly as thoroughfares for cars, not as public space for all to enjoy. The Great Streets Initiative, proposed by Los Angeles Mayor ...

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Health

A Big Boost For Public Health

Maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) is no longer a major public health problem in the World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia region. The WHO South-East Asia Region...

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Alternative Entertainment

The 5 Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read This Summer

Balmy beach days usually send readers in search of juicy, fast-paced dramas, but for Bill Gates, the summer heat is equally great for nerdy escapism. In a new blog post the...

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Drone Data Sparks a New Industrial Revolution

Businesses are learning that sometimes the best way to boost the bottom line is by reaching for the sky.Commercial drone usage across a wide variety of industries is explod...

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Sustainable Development

China Wants TO Build A Deep Sea 'Space Station'

The manned deep sea platform would sit 9,800 feet under disputed waters in the South China Sea, and would be a key resource in China’s offshore mining efforts, accord...

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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...

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Hubble Space Telescope Focuses On Lonely Dwarf Galaxy

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of UGC 4879, the most isolated dwarf galaxy in the periphery of the Local Group of Galaxies. UGC 4879,...

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Sustainable Development

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...

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Hollywood

Joss Whedon Just Made A Perfect Point About Mansplaining That Every Guy Needs to Hear

Patricia Arquette's 2014 Oscars speech may have cemented her as Hollywood's public face for gender equality, but it's the work she's done since that has the poten...

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