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Homes like parkas? Shivering Arctic dwellers may need housing rethink 29 Apr 2019 - 10:19 pm
A view of an energy efficient house with a waterless toilet and gravity fed water system in southwest Alaska. Credit: Cold Climate Housing Resarch Center/Jack Hébert
Cute or creepy: why humans love some species, loathe others 29 Apr 2019 - 06:30 pm
A Chinese giant salamander, the largest in the world, which can grow up to 1,8 meters in length, lies in a glass enclosure during the China International Conservation festival in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan province on December 10, 2005. AFP / Goh
Fly me to the moon: Germany eyes slice of lucrative space market 29 Apr 2019 - 12:22 pm
Employees chat at a production line of Airbus' European Service Module (ESM), which is delivered for NASA's Orion Spaceship, at the Airbus plant in Bremen, Germany, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
Facebook’s Zuckerberg builds his wife a glowing ‘sleep box’ 28 Apr 2019 - 09:46 am
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No pay, no gain: Huawei outspends Apple on R&D for a 5G edge 26 Apr 2019 - 11:00 pm
A woman poses holding P9 smartphone by Chinese tech company Huawei during the launch at Battersea Evolution in London on April 6, 2016. AFP/Jack Taylor
Cambodians try out smartphones to track - and ease - climate woes 24 Apr 2019 - 09:47 pm
A Cambodian farmer learns how to use the MobilES app in Tmat Paelly village, Cambodia, on March 14, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Jeffrey Barbee
China to build moon station in 'about 10 years' 24 Apr 2019 - 12:17 pm
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'Marsquake': first tremor detected on Red Planet 23 Apr 2019 - 07:22 pm
An installation representing a cave on Mars is seen at the C-Space Project Mars simulation base in the Gobi Desert outside Jinchang, Gansu Province, China, April 17, 2019. Reuters/Thomas Peter
Facebook's flood of languages leaves it struggling to monitor content 23 Apr 2019 - 07:22 pm
An illustration photo shows the Facebook page displayed on a mobile phone held in front of a computer screen at a cyber-cafe in downtown Nairobi, Kenya April 18, 2019. Reuters/Stringer
SeaWorld publishes decades of orca data to help wild whales 23 Apr 2019 - 07:22 pm
A southern right whale swims in the harbour in Wellington on July 6, 2018. AFP/Marty Melville
One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft UN report 23 Apr 2019 - 04:44 pm
A Nepali park worker burns wildlife parts seized from poachers at Chitwan National Park, 250 kms south of Kathmandu on May 22, 2017. AFP
Samsung delays launch of folding Galaxy smartphone 22 Apr 2019 - 08:58 pm
Samsung senior VP of product marketing Justin Denison speaks on stage about the new foldable phone during the Samsung Unpacked product launch event in San Francisco, on February 20, 2019. AFP / Josh Edelson
iPhones to sport 3-camera setup, 12MP selfie shooter 22 Apr 2019 - 02:56 pm
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The ethical gold rush: Gilded age for guilt-free jewellery 21 Apr 2019 - 11:48 am
A jeweller works on a ring in an ethical gold jewellery workshop in Paris on February 18, 2019. AFP / Lionel Bonaventure
Giving human touch to Alexa or Siri can backfire 21 Apr 2019 - 10:45 am
File photo of Prompts on how to use Amazon's Alexa personal assistant are seen in an Amazon ‘experience centre’ in Vallejo, California, U.S., May 8, 2018. Picture taken May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo
Solar power 'cow' helps children swap farming for classes 19 Apr 2019 - 10:58 pm
Solar-cow-2: SungUn Chang, the CEO of Yolk, poses for a photograph in London, Britain, on April 17, 2019. Sonia Elks/Thomson Reuters Foundation
Girls got game: Young women hope to level up video game coding skills 19 Apr 2019 - 10:58 pm
A trainer and computer programmer from Girls Make Games addresses students at an all-day workshop that teaches girls how to design and programme video games in central London, Britain, 12 April, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/ Lin Taylor
Astronaut to eclipse record for longest US spaceflight by a woman 19 Apr 2019 - 10:58 pm
International Space Statio crew member Christina Koch of the US attends the final qualification training for their upcoming space mission in Star City near Moscow, February 20, 2019. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov