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Sustainable Development

Design Advance Could Mean Commercial Light-Based Processors Within A Few Years

A team of engineers from MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado have overcome a major barrier to light-based computers, offering a means to move beyond the increa...

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Gender

How One Woman Made 100 Villages In Rajasthan Fertile Using Traditional Water Harvesting Methods

Amla Ruia has transformed the face of over 100 villages in Rajasthan by using traditional water harvesting techniques and building check dams. This is the story of how she&...

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Festivals

Santa Fe Film Festival Explores The Role Of Drones In Filmmaking

It’s a bird; it’s a plane – no, and it’s not a superhero, either. It’s a drone, and it may be making movies. 
Sending a camera up on...

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Sustainable Development

Now That We Can Edit Cancer's Genes, We Can Make Better Drugs

The ability to edit the human genome, a sci-fi procedure made possible by a new technique called CRISPR/Cas-9, has taken the field of genetic research by storm. In the...

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Health

CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead resear...

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Sustainable Development

CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead resear...

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Sustainable Development

Microbes From Human Skin Have Colonized The ISS

Researchers led by Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a molecular biologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studied dust particles collected from ISS vacuums and air filter...

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TV

True Review TV - A Classic Revisited

Monday evening saw the start of Life OK?s newest serial -- Ek Tha Chander Ek Thi Sudha, a page out of the best of Hindi literature -- Dharamvir Bharati?s iconic novel, Guna...

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Trending

Japan Is Building A Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory

Indoor lettuce-growing is in vogue. And it’s being taken over by robots.In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce ...

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Sustainable Development

This Handheld Device Will Help The Blind Echolocate

Some blind people have learned to navigate their surroundings using echolocation, the technique of bouncing sound off of objects to determine their location, often by makin...

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