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Google Doodle Celebrating Maria Sibylla Merian’s 366th birthday

On April 2nd, Google is celebrating naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian with a beautiful Doodle featuring various forms of small wildlife

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Why Are Keyboards QWERTY?

The arrangement of the first six letters in the top alphabet row of a standard keyboard – QWERTY – goes

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Indian Innovations You Ought To Know

Avaz Children with speech impairment often find it difficult to communicate. Providing them with a ‘voice’ is Ajit Narayanan’s low-cost

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Flexible Electronics That Can Be Applied Like Temporary Tattoos May Able To Control Machines With Their Mind

  Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over

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Why is Quartz Used in Watches?

Quartz, made up of silica and oxygen, is one of the most common minerals on Earth. Billions of people use

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Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, & Yuri Milner launch $33M ‘Breakthrough Prize’ in life sciences

Mark Zuckerberg is lending his name and fortune to support developments in life sciences. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan,

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Bionic Hand That Connects With Brain Will Provide Sense of Touch

Scientists have moved closer to enabling amputees with artificial limbs to feel what they are touching. The first bionic hand

Connected Web pages

Every Webpage Is Connected by 19 Clicks or Less

No one knows for sure how many individual pages are on the web, but right now, it’s estimated that there

DE-STAR

Scientists Propose System to Vaporize Asteroids That Threaten Earth

It has been an eventful year for space enthusiasts, with it seeming like a new asteroid is announced every week,

meteorite and a killer asteroid

Confused about the difference between a meteorite and a killer asteroid? We’ve got you covered

  As updates roll in from Russia and the meteorite-related injury toll rises, you may be scrambling to remember what

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A Revolutionary New Computer, Based On The Apparent Chaos of Nature Can Reprogram Itself If It Finds a Fault

Haven’t we all felt the urge to throw our laptop against the wall when the screen goes blank at 3

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Scientists create automated ‘time machine’ to reconstruct ancient languages

Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them

Twitter Data

Researchers Have Developed an Application, Which Will Predict you are Sick or Not to Using Your Twitter Data

A new computer model uses only your tweets to predict whether you’ll be sick in the next week with 91

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The Science of Falling in Love

With Valentine’s Day coming up in a few days, the question of love is on millions of minds across the