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Innovation And Perseverance Were Key To The First Trans-Atlantic Solar Flight

Bertrand Piccard is a dreamer. The Swiss psychiatrist, inspired by a family lineage of explorers and innovators, holds the record for the first non-stop balloon flight acro...

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When Genetic Screening Goes Very, Very Wrong

Teenagers don't routinely drop dead of cardiac failure. As a cause of death among individuals aged 12 to 19, heart disease barely even rates, staking out a mere 3 perc...

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Health

11 Health Innovations To Drastically Cut Maternal And Child Mortality Rates

Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 hea...

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The City That Was Saved By The Internet

The “Chattanooga Choo Choo” sign over the old terminal station is purely decorative, a throwback. Since the Southern Railroad left town in the early 1970s, the ...

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The First Mars Homes Could Look Like Red Space Igloos

The new space race is focused on who can get humans on Mars first. But what happens after that?
Eventually, colonization will become a major priority, and housing is g...

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What Went Wrong With Google Fiber?

Google Fiber, we hardly knew ya’.Google parent Alphabet’s decision to put the brakes on its superfast fiber-based internet service represents a disappointing setback fo...

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What It’s Like To Live With A Bionic Hand

Nicky Ashwell was born without her right hand, but that’s never held her back. She tried a few different prosthetics in the past—mainly realistic-looking hands ...

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Environment

Prehistoric Trees Could ‘Future-Proof’ Forests Against Climate Change

As you walk through the landscape, you pass through a patchwork of forests that were logged at different times. You may go from bushwhacking through a dense thicket of youn...

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Health

Mobile Diagnostic Device That Helps Pregnant Women In Rural India Receive Timely Medical Attention

A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in ...

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Sustainable Development

Who Needs A Sun? Alien Life Could Survive Off Of Cosmic Rays

When searching for life on other planets, we tend to look for conditions similar to Earth—after all, that’s the only place we’ve found life in the univers...

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