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Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India but a machine unveiled for Monday's World Toilet Day could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of mostly low-caste Indians are employed in one of the world's dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from unde...
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Peter Ward’s arguments about the source of climate change have been denounced by scientists. That hasn’t stopped him from presenting his ideas at prominent conferences.
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Three of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists and six others went on trial Monday for spearheading the tumultuous “Occupy Central” demonstrations in 2014.
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This is a& re-post from the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy by Sarah Finnie Robinson
When do 97% of people agree on anything, even ice cream? In scientific circles, consensus is a rare trophy, held to famously exacting standards. When a scientific consensus is finally reached &md...
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This battle goes beyond the merits of CRISPR and zinc-finger nuclease gene-editing approaches.
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Scientists acknowledge key errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming
A major study claimed the oceans...
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At the beginning of the year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made changes to its website pages on fracking. A watchdog group known as the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative tracked those changes across the EPA’s site and just released a report documenting the group’s findings. Th...
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NASA was forced to plan for the inevitable death of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope a few weeks ago. The spacecraft, which had already discovered literally thousands of new planets, ran out of fuel and couldn't continue its science observations. Now, NASA has finally said goodnight...
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It comes as part of a promise to "restore inclusion and diversity" in the chamber
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The best retirement financial advice you can get might be to get more sleep. Furthermore, retirees typically would like to sleep more, but can’t — due to the disruptions in sleep patterns that are a normal part of the aging process.
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President Donald Trump expressed sadness Saturday at the devastation caused by fires in a California town, but persisted in his controversial claim that forest mismanagement was responsible for the tragedy, which has killed 76 and left more than 1,200 listed as missing. "This is very sad," Trump sa...
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Flash floods and landslides killed at least 12 people in central Vietnam, officials said Sunday, as hundreds of troops were dispatched to clean up destroyed villages and washed out roads. Heavy rains pounded the central Khanh Hoa province over the past few days as tropical depression Toraji blew in...
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When a crew member aboard
Star Trek's USS Enterprise is accused of sabotaging the futuristic ship, a noble Captain Jean-Luc Picard comes the accused traitor's defense, delivering a grave message to his exploration corps: "Have we become so fearful, have we become so cowardly, that...
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Earth space travellers (Steve Carell, Beck Bennet, Cecily Strong, Leslie Jones) make a discovery about the Thanksgiving feast they're sharing with their alien hosts (Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor).