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Health Ministry Confirms Two New COVID-19 Cases, in Delhi and Telangana

The Wire Staff 02/03/2020

The update brings India’s total case tally to five...

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Mitigating Climate Change Is Possible, but Only If We Are Serious About It

Prem Shankar Jha 09/11/2018

The world has to limit warming to 1.5 degrees...

As we enter the realm of megastructures – those of 1,000 km or more in dimension – maintaining safety and structural integrity has become a fiendish challenge. Credits: Reuters

What Would It Take to Build a Tower as High as Outer Space?

Sean Sun and Dan Popescu 09/09/2018

There are proposals for a free-standing tower that could...

Visitor shakes hands with an operational robot policeman at the opening of the 4th Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) in Dubai

Life-Sized Robots Join Dubai Police to Fight Crime

Reuters 01/06/2017

If it works, the Dubai police plans on making...

Dubai. Credit: pisaphotography/shutterstock

UAE Wants to Build a ‘Rainmaking Mountain’ – Are We All OK With That?

Tim Kruger 10/05/2016

Even if the rainmaking mountain is not itself geoengineering,...