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In far southern Argentina, writer Pablo Bizón recalls a chance encounter with a woman who ...
If cars are supercomputers, why are we not programming them for fewer emissions and speed?
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A visionary engineer and his two-person company have a plan to pave the country's roads with ...
Critics worry that by partnering with Palantir, a Silicon Valley company with ties to the CIA, po...
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Engineers in Antioquia decided to cross-reference data on solar radiation and cloud cover to enco...
Unlike countries like the US or even China, India doesn’t have a national repository to sto...
Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists gathered in Gangtok, India earlier this month for an unlikely me...
One study says it will take at least 100 years to bridge the global gender gap. And 217 years to ...
-Analysis- CARACAS — Artificial Intelligence is opening up new opportunities for the economy and society. But it will also affect millions of human jobs, and thus poses a huge challenge for ...
BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China's internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi'an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. "I am ...
The project "The Ocean Cleanup" wants to use its system to rid the oceans from plastic waste. The...
PARIS — The French capital was set to be the world capital of science. On May 17-18, no fewer than 50 conferences in the fields of aerospace, mechanics, energy, the environment, civil engineering, ...
Wind power has its drawbacks, especially in central German region of Hesse, where developers want...
Education and experience certainly play a role in how well an individual understands other people...
The U.S. web giant may be planning a return to China. But would web users there actually embrace ...
Since 2011, the Caribbean islands have been attacked by rafts of algae which give off a pungent o...
China's efforts to maintain control over citizens now include implementing volunteer "stabili...
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