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Aug 5 2008, Nithya N

Sometimes I think we innovate just so that we can become lazier. That was actually the basis for the design of Jonathan Fenton’s “Biopod”. Research conducted via a wide range of interviews on how people deal with recycling in and around the...

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E.U. stabilization force officers observe while a batch of highly explosive rocket fuel cells is incinerated at an explosives factory in Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. The batch of approximately 61 tons is part of an...