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Google Just Turned Android Smartphones Into Amateur VR Cameras

Google today released a new Android app called Cardboard Camera that lets users take VR photos with their smartphone, which are then viewable in the company&rsquo...

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Kaleidoscope

7/7/07: Heart Of Darkness

Reyhaneh Jabbari was just nineteen when she was arrested for the murder of a man who tried to rape her. After six years of torture and torment she was hanged in October 201...

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Sustainable Development

How High Speed Communications Networks Are Making Remote Surgery Realistic

Imagine a future where surgeons no longer have to enter war zones to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield. Instead, they would just rig themselves up to a?surgical rob...

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Sustainable Development

The Secret To Conquering Space Without It Killing Us First May Lie In Our Bones

Space travel is notoriously hard on the human body. For decades, astronauts have returned to Earth anemic, their red blood cell count depleted, leaving them vulnerable to i...

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Gender

Why We All Need Planned Parenthood.

I’ve turned to Planned Parenthood twice during my reproductive years. Once was for an annual exam that had been much delayed. As I approached the clinic, a protester ...

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Health

She Is 10. She Has HIV

The fifth-grader with cornrows stepped from an elevator at Children?? National Medical Center and walked over the polished tile floor she had first crossed in a baby carrie...

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Sustainable Development

Stanford Physicists Set A New Record For Quantum Entangling Distant Electrons

Computer hardware is almost always realized via electrons, e.g. good old fashioned electricity. Apply some voltage to a conductive material and now we're scooting around el...

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Gender

The Relationship Between Women’s Education And Fertility

With positive signals for fertility decline emerging in sub-Saharan Africa, and development economists debating the potential for African countries to see a “demograp...

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Environment

Japan Plans To Kill Hundreds Of Protected Whales This Winter

?Australia strongly opposes the decision by Japan to resuming whaling in the Southern Ocean this summer,? Greg Hunt, Australia?s environment minister,?told reporters?on Sat...

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Sustainable Development

Amazon Reveals Its New Delivery Drone

In the advertisement, the former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson breaks down the drone specs for the viewer, calling the prototype ?a miracle of modern technology.? While cal...

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