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MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce “superheated” steam hotter...
Herbs and Spices: How Food Affects Health
Using herbs, spices, and other seasonings will help flavor your food without adding extra sodium, calories, sugar, or fat.
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Health Benefits of Condiments, Sauces, and Flavorings
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Researchers Link Realism To Blockchain’s Promise
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Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions by Emily Gordon
A swarm of biotechnological robot drones defends a fragile Eden from invasive species....
Former NASA Engineers Building Real-Life Underwater Transformer
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Wireless ‘Pacemaker For The Brain’ Could Offer New Treatment For Neurological Disorders
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Sarah Oppenheimer by Alexander Galloway
We live in the age of the museum. Thousands have opened in the US and around the world since 2000, and visitors...
Protect Your Child from Breast Cancer with High-Fiber Diet
Here’s another good reason to load up your daughter’s plate (and lunch bag) with lots of fruits, veggies and whole grains: Eating...
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto by Andrew Benjamin
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have already produced a body of work that has exerted great influence on the practice of contemporary...
Greater Fort Lauderdale (Broward County): a travel destination in itself
With around 50 cruise ships sailing in and out of Port Everglades every year, Florida’s Fort Lauderdale has a reputation as the...
Surprising eSwatini (Swaziland): culture, safari and vast, unspoilt landscapes
Swaziland is one of those countries which few people can actually place on the map. And just as few people can tell...
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Health Benefits of Condiments, Sauces, and Flavorings
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What to see in Hiroshima and the Setouchi Region, Japan
The only place in Japan’s Setouchi region that will be familiar to most is Hiroshima, the city destroyed by the first...
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A movie montage for modern artificial intelligence might show a computer playing millions of games of chess or Go against itself to learn how to win. Now, researchers are exploring how the reinforcement learning technique that helped DeepMind’s...
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New Optimization Chip Tackles Machine Learning, 5G Routing
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