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‘The Poetic Minimalism’ of Abbas Kiarostami

 Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) is unarguably the most known face of Iran on the map of World cinema, writes Vandan...

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TV

Oh, those snakes and ladders

Khalid Mohamed reviews the politics-as-usual drama Madam Chief Minister, is brain-boggled by Qubool Hai 2.0 and finds sol...

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Sustainable Development

NASA's Adorable Pop-Up Rovers Are Designed to Explore Harsh Alien Terrains

These origami-inspired vehicles are currently in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and are designed to tackle the kinds of tricky, high-risk terrain that hav...

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Sustainable Development

The Four Coolest Concepts NASA Just Bankrolled to Solve Spaceflight Challenges

Like some glorious love child of Shark Tank and Cosmos, NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program aims to fund visionary space exploration proposals sourced ...

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Sustainable Development

The Top 10 Scientific Discoveries That Renewed Our Faith In Humanity This Year

On each of the three NASA Mars rovers, there’s a tiny inscription written on the sun dial. It details the mission and what us mere Earthlings hoped to achieve by send...

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Sustainable Development

These Exoskeletons, Rovers, And Mantis Robots Are The Future Of German Robotics

Researchers based at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) have been busy lately, judging by their latest glut of futuristic video content. Seemingl...

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Sustainable Development

A New Type Of Dune Has Been Found On Mars

Led by Caltech planetary geologist Mathieu Lapôtre, the new research confirmed the existence of this third type of “bedform,” the term for sedimentary str...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Can Virtually Wander Around Mars For Miles With Hololens

“My average day is that I go to the office, have my coffee, nip off to Mars for a little while, check out the latest location, write some code, and then I’m bac...

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Sustainable Development

An Image Processing Trick Shows Mars In Unprecedented Detail

Researchers have released images of the Martian surface at five timesgreater resolution than previously seen, and they didn’t need to send a new camera into space to ...

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Sustainable Development

Nasa?s Latest Rover Concept Is Inspired By Worms And Amoebas

Every rover we have sent to explore other planets has had the same basic ?lab-on-wheels? design, with the exception of the adorable skiing Prop M robots of the Soviet space...

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