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Her Name Was Gauhar

There is little documentation about India’s great performing artistes and even less about the women.

The tawaifs, despite their talent and refinement had the ...

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Environment

India?s Top Court Orders Measures To Curb New Delhi?s Worsening Smog

New Delhi's runaway pollution has put it on a par with the notoriously smoggy Chinese capital Beijing Appalling levels of pollution in the Indian capital have prompted the ...

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Health

Small Metal Grate Makes Big Impact On Environment, Health

A University of Iowa researcher created an inexpensive metal insert for primitive cookstoves, such as this one used in a remote village in India, that may decrease global w...

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Sustainable Development

Engineers Combine Biological Energy-Harvesting With Electronic Circuits

Previous experiments have accomplished similar-sounding schemes—energy harvested within an inner-ear, tree-powered nanoelectronics—but with the critical limitat...

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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

Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel

Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space jun...

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Kaleidoscope

Bond Forever

As the latest James Bond film, Spectre become a global hit, and rakes 31.9 crores on opening weekend in India, despite the ‘kiss’ controversy, the one criticism...

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Hollywood

How This Googler Is Trying To Shake Up Hollywood’s Idea Of Who An ‘Engineer’ Is?

Julie Ann Crommett describes her job as a “tech-and-Hollywood hybrid.”
She’s Google’s entertainment industry educator-in-chief, striving to ban...

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Environment

Robots Will Make Leeds The First Self-Repairing City

The idea is to create a city that behaves almost like a living organism,? said Raul Fuentes, a researcher at the School of Civil Engineering at Leeds University, who is wor...

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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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