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The First Real Smart Drug? Researchers Say Modafinil Works

A study published this week, however, makes bold claims on the properties of one of the most well-known smart drugs: modafinil. Modafinil is a medication prescribed for sle...

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Check Out The Most Recent Crop Of VICE Documentaries

Due to continuous conflict in the region, the development of artistic endeavors in Iraq has been compromised over time. Yet, in the past few years, there’s been a nat...

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Sustainable Development

Physicists Open A Tabletop Magnetic 'Wormhole'

A team of Spanish researchers has successfully constructed a magnetic “wormhole,” according to an open-access paper published this week in Scientific Reports. W...

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Sustainable Development

Can Youth Entrepreneurship Drive Sustainable Growth?

A boat trip from Port Elizabeth to Kingstown, in the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is a one-hour trip that locals take several times a day. It was ...

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Sustainable Development

A Startup Is Pushing the Boundaries of Biology with Synthetic DNA

Dr. Floyd Romesberg, one of the company?s co-founders, made news last year when he and a team of scientists successfully incorporated two synthetic nucleotide bases into th...

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Sustainable Development

The Machine That Promises To Turn Carbon Pollution Into 'Diamonds From The Sky'

"We have found a way to use atmospheric CO2 to produce high-yield carbon nanofibers," George Washington University?s Stuart Licht, Ph.D, said in a statement announcing his ...

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Environment

Who Killed The Venus Flytrap?

The Venus flytrap is one of the most iconic and well-known plant species in the world. It's a hearty favorite that's easy to propagate indoors, which is why it's found in n...

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Hollywood

Eddie Redmayne Named Ambassador of U.K. Film Charity

Later this month he’ll be donning the robes of Newt Scamander as production on the first Harry Potter spin-off – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them –...

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Sustainable Development

One Small Optical Chip, One Giant Leap For Quantum Computing

Today marked the unveiling of a reprogrammable optical chip that is capable of processing photons in an infinite variety of ways. This development marks a massive step towa...

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Sustainable Development

Google’s Project Ara Won’t Be Around Until At Least 2016

Google’s modular smartphone is officially delayed, with tests pushed back to 2016. The program, called Project Ara, was to begin testing in Puerto Rico later this yea...

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