Sustainable Development

Why Widespread Fusion Energy Is Taking So Damn Long

The dream of fusion energy hit a roadblock on Monday after it was revealed that it would take at least another decade and 4 billion euros for an international coalition to get...

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THIS INNOVATIVE WEST AFRICAN LAB IS TURNING E-WASTE INTO 3D PRINTERS AND ROBOTS

GROWING UP IN THE REMOTE, ARID TERRAINS OF DAPAONG IN NORTHERN TOGO, LALLE NADJAGOU WAS ALWAYS FASCINATED BY TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN.“In my childhood I used to try and mak...

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SpaceX Will Send Your Stuff to Mars Starting at $62 Million

Looking to chuck some of your belongings over to Mars? SpaceX has you covered, provided you have the dough. This weekend, the company updated its standard price options to inc...

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Pact Cities That Steal Smart Ideas From Animals & Plants

Architects, designers and urban planners are borrowing from natural phenomena as diverse as termite mounds and resilient grapefruits to design smart, sustainable cities. With ...

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Scientists Think Intelligent Life Could Have Evolved Before Brains

Today, French scientists took a poke at humans’ intellectual hegemony by demonstrating, for the first time ever, that a single-celled organism without a brain or nervous...

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An Image Processing Trick Shows Mars In Unprecedented Detail

Researchers have released images of the Martian surface at five timesgreater resolution than previously seen, and they didn’t need to send a new camera into space to get...

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Self-Assembling Nanoparticles Offer Super-Efficient, Portable Water Desalination

Solar desalination is a tantalizing cure-all to Earth's fresh-water woes. After all, this is where fresh water comes from naturally as part of the planet's water cycle—t...

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A Brief History Of Genome Island, Second Life’s First Genetics Lab

Unlike WoW, the virtual world of Second Life is almost entirely user generated. By making use of a specially tailored scripting language, the ‘residents’ of Second Life ca...

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In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals

The earth beneath Lakshmi Karre’s sparse cotton crop is hard and dry. Dressed in a flowery orange sari, she squats in the large gap between two plants and tugs at some b...

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Unilever Tops Food Companies In Oxfam Sustainability Ranking

Unilever increased attention to climate change and was the only top food company that asked its suppliers to support farmers’ rights organizations Unilever received top ...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024