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Environment

New Material Lifts Technology From Desert Beetle, Harvests Water From Air

The global water scene should strike fear into the hearts of even the most privileged of middle-class Americans. There will be good years and there will be worse years, but...

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Environment

Engineers Devise A Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees

Harvesting electrical power from vibrations or other mechanical stress is pretty easy. Turns out all it really takes is a bit of crystal or ceramic material and a couple of...

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TV

True Review - Two New Shows Of Relevance

In the last few weeks, two channels have espoused women empowerment in their new offerings at Prime Time. Star Plus premiered Tamanna last week, before that Colors launched...

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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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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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Retroscope

Retroscope - The Healing Touch

The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai an...

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TV

True Review – Television This Week- Yamraj’s Climate Change Mission

The makers of Yam Hai Hum couldn?t have timed their current series of episodes better. The Paris Summit on Global Warming and climate change taking the front seat on the ne...

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Sustainable Development

Stanford Physicists Set A New Record For Quantum Entangling Distant Electrons

Computer hardware is almost always realized via electrons, e.g. good old fashioned electricity. Apply some voltage to a conductive material and now we're scooting around el...

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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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Sustainable Development

Space Origami Could Pack Big Structures Into Tiny Satellites

The founder and CEO of?Oxford Space Systems?(OSS), a venture capital-backed tech company that is designing hardware for satellites, is convinced that new flexible materials...

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