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New York International Children’s Film Festival Gives Young Heroes Their Stage

A film festival for children might sound, on the surface, like a safe and festive zone — sunshine, puppies, hugs and happy families. But any young reader or moviegoer...

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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

This Bacteria-Powered Microrobot Navigates via Electric Fields

Engineers from Drexel University have devised a bacteria-powered microrobot that can be steered through fluids with applied electric fields. Imagine a tiny, tiny robotic sy...

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Environment

It's Official: 2015 Is The Hottest Year On Record

Average land and sea surface temperatures for the year ran 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.62 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average, the US National Oceanic and Atmosph...

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Environment

Here's The Most Detailed Picture Yet Of How Much The World's Oceans Are Warming

But to truly understand the remarkable ways in which human emissions are altering Earth's climate system, scientists need to find out what is going in the world's oceans. T...

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Festivals

New Films And Old Surface At The Pune International Film Festival

The annual Pune International Film Festival is the first such event in the calendar, but it tends to behave as though it is the last. The world cinema section is usually a ...

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Sustainable Development

A Japanese Probe That Was Lost In Space For 5 Years Has Finally Made It To Venus

Back in 2010, Akatsuki was launched into space to study the surface of Venus. While the spacecraft reached the planet on 7 December 2010, it didn’t quite enter o...

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Sustainable Development

Gamma Rays Can Show Us Which Asteroids Are Worth Mining

An instrument built to take advantage of this ability could one day be common on space probes, and used to find what?s going on compositionally under the surface of an aste...

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Sustainable Development

Your Body Is Made Of Hydrogel, And Soon Robots Could Be Too

Researchers at MIT have detailed a new method to create synthetic hydrogels—polymer networks infiltrated with water—that stick to non-porous surfaces such as gl...

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Environment

We’re Halfway To Global Warming’s ‘Dangerous Limit’

The UK?s major meteorological outfit, the Met, says we?re entering what it calls ?uncharted territory? this year. According to the organization, ?data for 2015 so far shows...

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