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4 Technologies Innovating Mental Health In 2016

Mental health innovation is long overdue. With telemedicine technologies booming in the health care sector, mental health technology has been lagging behind. The unique nat...

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Environment

Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, i...

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Festivals

Tribeca Film Festival Is Making A Huge Push Into Virtual Reality This Year

The festival, which kicks off in April, will feature a Virtual Arcade, allowing around 50 visitors to dive into VR environments using various headsets like the Samsung Gear...

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Environment

Here's Why Polar Bears' Summer Just Got A Bit Worse

The area of frozen ocean that caps the North Pole was smaller this past month than during any January on record.
Measurements released last week by the National Snow ...

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Environment

There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4...

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Sustainable Development

This Bacteria-Powered Microrobot Navigates via Electric Fields

Engineers from Drexel University have devised a bacteria-powered microrobot that can be steered through fluids with applied electric fields. Imagine a tiny, tiny robotic sy...

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Environment

At Least 14 Dead And 100 Missing After Quake Topples Apartment Tower In Taiwan

At least 14 people are dead and more than 100 are still missing after a powerful earthquake shook southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, causing a high-rise building in the c...

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Environment

The Pentagon Just Issued Marching Orders On Climate Change

The boring-but-important 12-page document issued in January tells the armed service chiefs and top civilian officials to identify how climate change will affect their missi...

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Trending

India Suffers From 'Inherently Unequal' Environment: Ratan Tata

The former Tata Group chief, who is now Chairman of Tata Trusts, said his greatest desire is to see India as a unified and equal-opportunity nation
India suffers from ...

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Environment

Threatened By Militias And Traffickers, Mali's Desert Elephants Could Be Extinct In 3 Years

In 2012, poachers began targeting the Gourma elephants. Now, in the face of ongoing political instability — armed militias and traffickers in arms and drugs &mda...

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