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Amazonian tribe has no word to express ‘one,’ other numbers
An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of “one” or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team.
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With sustainability and going green being the keywords today, it shouldn’t surprise us if we read that a student from Queensland University of Technology, Ms Kate...
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Tighten your seatbelt and put on your gear as we take you on a awesome journey in to what would be the future of transportation with ‘Green Cars’ that are right...
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Just because you’ve have tried your creative skills at Lego (when you were a kid) to build buildings and blocks, don’t you think you can build equally superior and...
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Hey did you know that 1 in 18 of the Dutch population actively support the work of the WWF to protect nature in all its aspects. Actually the ratio of one in eighteen...
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Created by Greg Lynn, one of Time Magazine’s 100 most innovative people for the 21st century, the Blobwall Pavilion is a freestanding indoor/outdoor wall system that...
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Engineers teaming up with biologists to develop robots that are inspired by nature (animals and insects) is a wonderful trend that has taken the field up by storm....
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Joseph DeSimone’s expertise in chemistry has yielded advances in environmentally sensitive plastics manufacturing, medical devices for blocked coronary arteries...
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A locksmith has managed to open a 159-year-old safe from Oregon that baffled other professional safecrackers and an expert from MIT.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says undergraduates whose families earn less than $75,000 a year will not have to pay tuition.
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For the past two months, 24 hours a day, MIT researchers have been collecting the electronic communications of millions of New Yorkers _ but not for salacious gossip or...
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