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Keep the Paris promise: Freeze new fossil fuel projects

The Paris agreement — negotiated by 196 heads of state last December — will enter into force on November 4th, just 3 days before the start of the next UN meeting.

October 24, 2016
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Category: Environment

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Sustainability

Why Space Elevators Could Be the Future of Space Travel

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Expensive, unsustainable rockets have served as our primary means to exit Earth, but space elevators present a cheaper way to enter outer space. Although new materials are needed, space elevator missions are in motion and we could see the first elevator constructed in the next several decades.

October 23, 2016
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Category: Science

Toyota’s New Hydrogen Buses Are Heading to Tokyo

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Toyota will start selling its clean air hydrogen bus, the Toyota Murai, starting in 2017. Fuel cell engines create clean water and don't emit greenhouse gases — but synthesizing hydrogen for the engine does.

October 23, 2016
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Category: Science

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Renewable Energy

Genetics of Autism: Scientists Find New Link

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Scientists have isolated another gene — neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) — linked to autism symptoms in nearly half of 100,000 people suffering from the rare NF1 tumor disorder. The research provides hope in finding new genetic links and treatments for the neurological disorder that affects millions of Americans and 1 in 68 children.

October 23, 2016
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Category: Science

Avoiding Ex Machina: How We Can Ensure Our AI Are Safe

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Experience-based artificial intelligence may be able to give us a way to create safe and benevolent behaviors in AI by teaching and testing the machines in complex environments that challenge its goals.

October 21, 2016
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Category: Science

Research Shows That Life on Alien Planets Could Survive Without a Sun

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A bacterium that uses a process called radiolysis to create energy was discovered 2.8 kilometers underground, our first example of life without sunlight. These bugs open up the possibility for us to find life on planets very different from Earth or maybe even figure out how to live on those planets one day.