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Sonakshi Sinha To Be Face Of Tiger Protection Campaign

Wildlife channel Animal Planet has announced its fifth annual campaign, where Sonakshi will be the face of the channel's 2016 "Where Tigers Rule" campaign. "Danger Se DarrN...

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Sustainable Development

Why AI Can Still Hardly Pass An Eighth Grade Science Test

An artificial intelligence competition that asked AI models to answer eighth-grade science questionsannounced its winners this week—but it doesn’t look like rob...

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Health

The Hidden Health Consequences Of How We Design Our Homes

The way we design and build our houses could have a surprising impact on a tiny, but important, aspect of our personal lives: the microscopic organisms that share those hom...

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Environment

Warm Ocean Temperatures Helped Make 2015 A Record Year For Shark Attacks

Increasingly warm waters around the globe due to climate change and El Niño led to the highest number of shark attacks ever recorded in 2015, according to data relea...

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Environment

Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, i...

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Sustainable Development

The Destructive Influence Of Imaginary Peers

We humans irrationally think we’re rational. We think that we decide how to behave by weighing the pros and cons. In reality, the strongest influence on our decisions...

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Environment

Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea

But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully ...

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Sustainable Development

Humans Were Living In The Arctic 15,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

Around 26,000 years ago, the ice sheets comprising the Earth?s arctic regions reached their maximum extension, reaching as far south as Germany. This period is appropriatel...

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Environment

Scientists Now Fear Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than It Has In All Of Earth?s History

Climate change deniers often argue that the climate change we?re seeing now is just part of Earth?s natural cycle, and isn?t being caused by humans. But new research sugges...

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Sustainable Development

Transhumanists, In Their Own Words

Transhumanism, the idea that humans should use science and technology to extend our natural abilities, is the religion of the 21st century. It's a concept that has been aro...

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