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Can we save our Planet from the Hothouse Earth Scenario?

A “Hothouse Earth” climate will in the long term stabilize at a global average of 4-5°C higher ...

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Environment

Indonesian Fishermen build Database to protect their Fish Industry

If you buy fish from a grocery store–or sashimi at a restaurant–it’s likely that it was unsustainably fished, and if you b...

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Festivals

The Future of Filmmaking is Here

Much of the public view of the film and television industry is centered around entertainment value and often doesn’t grasp the background work that goes into making t...

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Sustainable Development

What Do We Want the Future to Be?

Sometime in late June of 2011, I sat down at a Thai restaurant in Williamsburg with then-deputy editor Sean Yeaton. I'd been badgering him for months over email to give me ...

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Sustainable Development

Two Research Teams Have Independently Made a Real-Life Time Crystal

Two research teams from Harvard and the University of Maryland have published research papers today in Nature which detail how they have independently managed to create rea...

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Sustainable Development

Farms Are Turning To Solar As Electricity Prices Soar

Step onto a farm in California, and you're likely to find solar panels planted near almonds or oranges.
Solar energy is a growing presence in the agriculture industry,...

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Sustainable Development

Meet the Cyborg Beetles, Real Insects That Are Controlled Like Robots

The future is crawling towards us on six legs. Motherboard traveled to Singapore to meet with Dr. Hirotaka Sato, an aerospace engineer at Nanyang Technological University. ...

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Environment

New Method For Trapping CO2 as Solid Rock Could Help to Fight Climate Change

There’s no denying that 2016 has been a year of environmental extremes. Think “extraordinarily” hot Arctic temperatures, rapidly melting glaciers, unprece...

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Sustainable Development

Homemade Rotary Cell Phone Can Send Texts, Play FM Radio, And Make Calls

It wasn't all that long ago that huge swaths of critics were claiming Steve Jobs' keypad free cell phone would never take off, and I find myself wondering what they would h...

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Sustainable Development

Why CRISPR Never Could Have Come Out Of Silicon Valley

Jennifer Doudna is a creator of the gene editing technology that’s revolutionizing biology and medicine: CRISPR, which is so easy to use it’s often compared to ...

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