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How Much Money Would be Needed to Build a new New York City

Some people are wondering how much money would be needed to build a new New York City and the surrounding area. This would include roads, trains, bridges and...

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How Neanderthal Left Their Mark on Human Beings

It seems that some people contain a small amount of Neanderthal DNA. Pacific Island dwellers have Denisovans DNA while many others have other genes. Dr. Joshua Akey finds...

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A Trash Incinerator in Norway Begins Carbon-Capture Testing

Since January, there have been attempts made to capture carbon dioxide from burning rubbish. In Oslo’s Klemetsrud incinerator household waste is burned and it is hoped this experiment...

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Germany Needs to Build 3,000 Wind Turbines To Replace a Nuclear Power Plant

Lower Saxony boasts the most productive nuclear power plant ever. In China, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest, but it would be unfair to compare them carefully....

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Technology brings substance to sustainability

Sustainability has been the buzz word for corporations for some time. They want their brand to be known as sustainable, but there have been limitations. The people who...

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The Earth’s Oceans Will Have More Plastic Than Fish by 2050

It has been estimated that we use 300 million tons of plastic per year and often it an item that is used just once. Seabirds are at risk...

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Researcher Used Fluid Dynamics to Explain How Quickly Vampires Could Drain Your Blood

It is 85 years since Bela Lugosi’s Dracula was released and it coincides with some unusual research from students at Leicester University. The Physics and Chemistry Department have...

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Abandoned Factory Becomes a Floating Field of Fishes and Algae

Floating Fields uses public space for an edible landscape and replicating the ecology that was once defining the Pearl River Delta. The fish ponds that were once the...

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Eight Percent of Our DNA is Non-Human

We have around 8% alien DNA and by this, we mean it is viral fragments that are not human. This also applies to other things on earth that...

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Fastest Growing Solar Energy Project on Earth is About to Collapse

Did you know that the fastest growing solar energy project on earth is about to collapse? Ivanpah, a two-point-two billion solar power plant in California has recorded a...

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4D-printed Shape-Shifting Architectures That Mimic Plant Movements

3D printing has now been taken a stage further, thanks to the work of scientists at Harvard University. It is now possible to produce a 4D composite structure...

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SolarTab, A Giant Solar Panel With 13.000 mAh Battery

Many people have a battery back-up every day, and this can be needed if you want to watch video content on the phone. The thought of running phones...

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