07 Aug Fighting street crime with street art in Karachi

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07 Aug 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest winners revealed

Categories for the 27th annual contest included travel portraits, outdoor scenes, sense of place and spontaneous moments.

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07 Aug 7 Rules for Designing Safer Cities

As a part of its EMBARQ Sustainable Urban Mobility initiative, the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities has created a global reference guide called Cities Safer by Design “to help cities save lives from traffic fatalities through improved street design and smart urban development.”

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07 Aug (infographic) 2015 American Pantry Study: Tracking consumer shopping patterns

View highlights from the 2015 American Pantry Study, which tracks consumer shopping patterns based on input from 4,013 survey respondents.

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07 Aug How to Build a City on the Moon

The very idea of a moon city ignites a constellation of questions about what it would look like and how we would build it. So CityLab called Woerner to find out. With the International Space Station potentially coming offline around 2024, he says, it’s time to envision the next era of human presence beyond Earth. The moon-city project would be a prime driver of technological advancement as well as basic scientific research.

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07 Aug Drone can stay in the air for two days to spot fish poachers

The Flexrotor drone can take off, fly and touch down vertically.

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While Aerovel is focusing on building drones for commercial purposes at this point, the company actually signed a contract with the Navy back in 2012 to develop the Flexrotor for maritime surveillance.

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31 Jul A collection of man-made ‘music’ and the machines behind it

Listen and learn.

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31 Jul Green 3D Printer Prints Living Designs From Organic “Ink”

Project PrintGREEN is turning 3D printers into on-demand gardeners after designing a “green” 3D printer in 2013. The printer produces living prints, printing customized objects in a variety of sizes and forms. The project was created at the University of Maribor in Slovenia, conceived

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31 Jul 3D Printed Farm Drone Designed by Mexican Engineering Student Helps Small Farmers Monitor Crops

With global population exploding, perhaps few efforts are more essential today than those aimed at developing efficient and cost-effective ways of producing foo

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The photos from the drone provide a near-infrared reading that provides information concerning how efficiently plants are absorbing sunlight to facilitate photosynthesis. Farmers can use the information to adjust their distribution of water and fertilizer to their crops.

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31 Jul Scientists Finally Created a White Laser—and It Could Light Your Home

Lasers have been advancing science and threatening move characters since the 1960s, but you may have noticed they always have a distinct color. Now, a team of scientists has developed the world’s first white laser.

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Hot on the heels of Japan’s strongest laser fire is “Li-Fi” laser technology: white lasers that can be used for visible light communication.

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