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The Syrian War Is Causing A Dust Bowl In The Middle East, Researchers Suspect

The Remote Sensing Laboratory in Israel uses a device called a sun photometer to measure the severity of dust storms. The device measures the amount of light coming from th...

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Sustainable Development

Inside MIT's Self-Replicating Objects

As with other Self-Assembly Lab projects, including the chair that builds itself we debuted earlier this year, Self-Replicating Spheres is built on customized magnets. When...

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Gender

Simple Ways Tech Companies Can Fight Gender Inequality

With Intel’s recent move to promote better hiring practices, many tech companies have begun to take a harder look at issues of diversity in the workplace. At the VMwo...

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Sustainable Development

Virtual Fences Around Wind Farms Could Reduce Bird Deaths

Well, according to a recent study published in Animal Biotelemetry, the answer to this problem could be the development of geofences, which are virtual perimeters programme...

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Hollywood

Piper Perabo Shares Experiences Of Visiting Syrian Refugees In Greece

Piper Perabo – in partnership with WhoSay and the International Rescue Committee – recently visited Syrian refugees in Greece, and has written about her experie...

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Sustainable Development

A New Supermaterial Lets This Artificial Heart Pump Like The Real Thing

It’s been made by material science engineers from Cornell University, who say their foamy cardiovascular replica could have the potential to stand in as a replacement...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Just Created An Artificial Skin That Could Let Patients Feel Again.

“The aim of our research was to make a synthetic skin that communicates information about pressure in the same way that real skin does,” Alex Chortos, a researc...

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Sustainable Development

Tesla Cars Just Got An 'Autopilot' Mode.

It’s the most radical feature Tesla has ever delivered via an over-the-air update, downloaded to the car much like you’d download a new version of Android or iO...

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Sustainable Development

Self-Driving Cars Are Coming To Canadian Roads In 2016

In a bid to compete with the US on developing self-driving cars—technologies that companies such as Google and Tesla are already working on—self-driving cars ca...

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Festivals

Drishyam-Sundance Screenwriters Lab, 2016 Calls For Submissions For Their Second Edition

Mumbai, October 10, 2015: Drishyam Films, in partnership with the Sundance Institute, USA, is organising the Drishyam-Sundance Screenwriters...

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