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More Than 100 Feared Dead After Landslides In Sri Lanka

Roughly 150 people are feared dead on Wednesday after more than three days of heavy rainfall triggered two landslides in central Sri Lanka. Rescuers have been digging throu...

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Environment

It's Already Looking Like 2016 Will Be The Hottest Year On Record

How long can the hot streak last?
Global average temperatures set a seventh straight monthly record in April, and it wasn't even close, according to NASA figures. Last...

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Alternative Entertainment

African Storytelling Meets Comic Books With These New Superheroes

African superheroes are emerging, as comic book creators from the continent seek to change the meaning of diversity, bringing relatable characters and rich storytelling tra...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Releases Patents for Moon Dust Fuel, Bio-Gaming, And Laser Engines

If you’re looking for some inspiration for your newfangled spaceship concept—and aren’t we all? —NASA has good news for you. The agency recently rel...

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Sustainable Development

Encryption Gets In The Way Of 75% Of Cases, Europol Chief Says

In the US, police and prosecutors continue to say encryption—the use of math to protect data from outside eyes, including those of the government—presents a sig...

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Health

Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

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Sustainable Development

New Data From New Horizons Reveals Pure Water Ice On Pluto’s Moon Hydra

When scientists discovered a tiny moon orbiting Pluto back in 2005, they named it Hydra in keeping with the general Greco-Roman underworld theme established in the Plutonia...

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Human Rights

THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO CREATED A NEW WAY TO BUST SEX TRAFFICKING RINGS

When she was still an undergrad, Emily Kennedy created Traffic Jam, a program that helps authorities track prostitution rings by using publicly available data.
Last ye...

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Environment

This Map Tracks Thousands Of Cargo Ships To Highlight Their Carbon Emissions

The tiny specks of blue, red, and yellow on this world map depict the global pathways of tens of thousands of cargo ships.
The interactive map, co-created by researche...

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Environment

Tigers Are Making A Comeback For The First Time In A Century

After being pushed to the brink of extinction in the wild by a century of hunting and habitat destruction, roughly 3,890 of the world's largest cats are now spread across 1...

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