Sustainable Development

What Is a Gravitational Wave Detector, and Why Do We Want to Send One to Space?

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime. They’re a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but while we’ve seen indirect evidence ...

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SpaceX Is Planning At Least Four More Launches This Year

Earlier this week, Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president, said she wasn’t sure when the company would return to flight after its failed International Space Stat...

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The World's Most Powerful Camera Will Snap An Area 40x Bigger Than The Moon

Weighing in at roughly three tonnes (about the same as a jeep), the epic camera will be assembled at the DOE’s National Accelerator Laboratory. From 2022, it will help r...

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Plastic Will Be Inside Nearly Every Seabird On Earth By 2050

Oceans are the world’s forgotten landfill, and seabirds are turning into flying garbage cans. By 2050, 99 percent of all seabird species will be contaminated by the plas...

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How Automating Evolution Could Give Machines Imaginations.

Imagine if, decades from now, a computer spat out a brilliant design for a vehicle so novel that we humans have no choice but to call it an act of imagination. One day, Univer...

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Sustainable Development Goal 8: Promote Inclusive Economic Growth.

This story first appeared on the blog of Corporate Citizenship, a global business consultancy specializing in sustainability and corporate responsibility. Its series of articl...

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This Animator-Turned-Roboticist Is Making A Universal Language For Robots

“Robot Animator creates a new interface inside Autodesk Maya that’s specific to robotics,” Flessas told me. The software simplifies robotic programming for t...

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This 3D Printer Can Print 10 Materials At Once

Now researchers have made a printer they claim can use up to ten different materials at once. The “MultiFab,” made by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial I...

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The First Real Smart Drug? Researchers Say Modafinil Works

A study published this week, however, makes bold claims on the properties of one of the most well-known smart drugs: modafinil. Modafinil is a medication prescribed for sleep ...

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Physicists Open A Tabletop Magnetic 'Wormhole'

A team of Spanish researchers has successfully constructed a magnetic “wormhole,” according to an open-access paper published this week in Scientific Reports. Whil...

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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