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Sustainable Development

Bipedal Robots Are Better at Walking Sideways

Humans legs are a complex marvel of evolution. Our pelvis and hip joints allow for some incredible, energy efficient bipedal movement roboticists find hard to replicate. Su...

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Environment

How Green Banks Could Save the World

With environmental groups worried that a Donald Trump presidency could slow the implementation of renewable energy in the US, some clean energy advocates are turning to gre...

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Gender

TBI Blogs: Meet Odisha’s New Generation of Young Tribal Women: Trained, Ambitious, Fearless

It is not every day that one sees girls training to become mechanics. But 16 teenage girls from Odisha’s far-flung Gajapati district came out recently to take the tra...

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Thought Factory

Tired Hands, Weary Feet

‘Slavery is legally banned. But millions of India’s children live and work in slave labour conditions — bonded labour,...

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Human Rights

Make 'US' Your Priority: CRY Shares Appeal On Behalf Of Children

This Children's Day, the underprivileged children make an appeal to the state and the society to empower them through providing good education, health care and fighting the...

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Sustainable Development

Why Robots Need To Feel Pain

Pain is a fundamental fact of life for many organisms on our planet; a crucial mechanism for identifying what kinds of actions pose serious threats to our physical and ment...

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Sustainable Development

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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Health

Why The Nobel Prize Winning Discovery Of Autophagy Matters

Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi’s work on mechanisms underlying autophagy — a fundamental process of degrading and recycling cellular components — has gen...

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Bollywood

‘Empowering Women To Facilitate Human Development’

KOLKATA: In the conference titled "Jaagruti- EmpoweringWomen to Facilitate Human Development" organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, Pande said women are c...

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Hollywood

Brad Paisley Launches Fundraising Campaign For West Virginia Flood Victims And Donates $100,000

Go Fund Me, the world’s largest online fundraising platform, is pleased to announce that country music superstar Brad Paisley has launched a Go Fund Me camp...

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