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Changing Kenya’s Landscape For Wildlife And Jobseekers

Twenty years ago, this wildlife corridor in southern Kenya was in jeopardy. A scarcity of jobs in this impoverished, arid landscape meant people were hunting wild giraffe a...

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Health

UN Plans To End AIDS Threat By 2030

Speaking at a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Health Minister J.P. Nadda reiterated India’s commitment to fa...

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Sustainable Development

Is It Ethical To Grow Human Organs Inside Animal Chimeras?

Scientists are now working on a technique that would allow human organs to be grown inside pigs. The DNA within a pig embryo that enables it to grow a pancreas is deleted, ...

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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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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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Health

Measuring What Works: Evaluating Women’s Groups On Maternal Health Uptake In Rural Nepal

Last month Women’s Deliver Conference in Copenhagen was a turning point for the future of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with regards to women and girls&rsq...

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

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

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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 scientist...

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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 neutr...

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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...

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