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Soap bottle, A Revolutionary Liquid Soap Container Made Entirely Of Soap, Does Away With A Plastic Bottle

If statistics are anything to go by, on average we use 11 bottles of shower gel and 10 bottles of shampoo every year that amounts to 75 kilotons of plastic, one of the major pollutants in the world today.

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Biochemistry Professor Turns Fossilized Creatures And Present-Day Insects Into Bronze Sculptures

If you’re an art bug hiding somewhere within you, it’s certain to emerge sooner than later. So was the case with D Allan Drummond, assistant professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and human genetics at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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This Vietnamese Is Countering The Plastic Menace By Making Biodegradable Straws From Wild Grass

We use them and throw them without care…it’s the plastic straws that we’re talking about. In the US alone, a staggering 500 million plastic straws are thrown each day. They, along with other discarded plastic items, find their way into the oceans and turn up inside the stomachs of dead whales, turtles, and other sea

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AI Called GauGAN Can Turn Doodles Into Photorealistic Masterpieces

Ever heard of NVIDIA? Well, NVIDIA Corporation is a Santa Clara, California, US-based graphics and mobile processors company that’s known worldwide for its advanced technologies. The evidence of its technological expertise is GauGAN, a new and powerful artificial intelligence (AI). The name has been inspired by the post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin.

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Former NASA Engineer turns sand into a fluid in a most amazing feat to fill his hot tub with ‘liquid sand’!

You have to hand it over to NASA guys that once they set their mind on something, they leave no stone unturned in achieving it. They take up the challenge and will not rest till they have found a solution to it. So, in that sense, Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, was no different.

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Ruzo Unravels The Mystery of the Boiling River In The Amazon Rainforest

Imagine being recounted the tales of a mythical city of gold and a Boiling River in the deep and dark forests of Peru. This is exactly how Andrés Ruzo’s young mind was fired with imagination when his grandfather told such tales. Such was their impact of these stories on this young boy that it remained

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