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Brutal Heat Wave In India Puts 330 Million To Risk

India is in the grips of a monstrous pre-monsoon heat wave that has killed more than 160 people in recent weeks. The majority of the deaths have been in the southern states...

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Festivals

Fast Forward Film Festival Shows Environmental Concerns

Kristen Smith, 17, of Brighton has done just that. The teen's short film, titled Kristen the Science Girl: Water, is environmentally focusedand created primarily with an iP...

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Sustainable Development

If We Can Make A Zika Vaccine, Why Can't We Make One For Malaria

As the Zika virus continues to spread through the Americas, researchers have been scrambling to develop a vaccine—an achievement some say we could reach within the ye...

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Trending

Lessons From Semi-Arid Regions On How To Adapt To Climate Change

Rising temperatures and more extreme, unpredictable climate events are making sustainable livelihoods tough for many people living in semi-arid regions of the world. To ada...

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Gender

Dharavi Girls Develop Apps For Education, Recycling & Women's Safety

In Dharavi, it’s the teenage girls who are driving change through science and technology, by developing apps to keep women safe, to get water, and for education. It a...

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Sustainable Development

It’s Now Possible To 3D Print A Pre-Assembled Robot

A new 3D printing technique from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has allowed researchers to “print” all of the parts of...

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Environment

Polar Bears Losing Weight As Arctic Sea Ice Melts: Study

Three decades of melting sea ice has led to significant weight loss among the world’s southernmost population of polar bears, new data from Canadian researchers sugge...

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Sustainable Development

To End Global Poverty Put Science At The Heart Of Development

We want to end extreme poverty.If you’re reading this, we’re pretty sure that you do as well. You will probably already know about the enormous progress being m...

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Sustainable Development

Neuroscientists Hack The Brain's Circuitry For Winning And Losing

We may be programmed in such ways as to predispose us toward "winning" or "losing," according to research published this week in Science by neuroscientists at the RIKEN Bra...

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Environment

Here's How The Number Of Fish In The Ocean Could More Than Double By 2050

Fish populations around the world have been decimated by overfishing — but new research suggests that this could soon change if the world got its act together.
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