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Farms Are Turning To Solar As Electricity Prices Soar

Step onto a farm in California, and you're likely to find solar panels planted near almonds or oranges.
Solar energy is a growing presence in the agriculture industry,...

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What Next For Renewables In Cities? – The Expert View

A complex range of factors is shaping how and why cities adopt renewable energy, from costs to the need for stable power supplies As renewable energy projects are rolled ou...

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Amritsar’s Golden Temple Leads by Example, Offers Organic Food From Its Farm To 1 Lakh Pilgrims

In Amritsar, at the kitchen of the famed Golden Temple, there has been a quiet yet very healthy revolution taking place. Those who come to the temple to pray have turned to...

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Engineers Turn Human Body Into Bioacoustic Communications Channel

You meet Bob at a party—a friend of a friend. He's way drunk but let's slip that he's a procurement manager at a very large, very flush government contractor. Dude su...

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Sustainable Development

TFW The Radioactive Garbage From Your Lab Turns Out To Be A Potential Cancer Treatment

There's an old adage that one person's trash is another person's treasure. Take the case of a Canadian physics lab that realized the radioactive waste it had been stockpili...

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SpaceX Is Finally On Its Way Back To The ISS After Historic Launch

On Sunday morning, SpaceX successfully launched and landed a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft loaded with over 5000 pounds of supplies and experiments bound for...

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Matt Mitchell Is Arming Underserved Communities With Anti-Surveillance Tools

Matthew Mitchell had one of his first encounters with surveillance in the 1990s. At General Electric, his work usually involved repairing computers. But after a sexual hara...

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This Augmented Reality App Tells Indigenous Stories In Canadian Cities

Wikiupedia aims to be a digital network of Indigenous knowledge. Adrian Duke showed me his phone while we stood outside Vancouver's Skwachàys Lodge. An animated rave...

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A Groundbreaking Report On Gene Editing Says We Shouldn't Create Enhanced Humans

An international group of experts engaged with the ethical and regulatory problems facing gene editing and came to a surprising conclusion. Gene editing for the purpose of ...

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Environment

Solar-Powered Trains Are Closer To Reality Than We Might Think

How can we connect solar photovoltaics (PV) directly to railways to power electric trains? That’s the question my charity 10:10 and researchers at Imperial College&rs...

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