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    Reviving History and the Environment in the City of Djinns and Saints

    Nizamuddin Basti, a treasure trove of a 700-year-old living cultural heritage, is being through a renewal project being implemented by the Aga Khan Trust...
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    Could We Make Cars Out Of Petroleum Residue?

    A new way to make carbon fibre could turn refinery by-products into high-value, ultralight structural materials for cars, aircraft, and spacecraft. David L. Chandler   |  ...
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    Earthworms Can Replace Use of Synthetic Fertilisers, New Research Suggests

    Earthworms could have the potential to replace some high-cost mineral or synthetic fertilisers, suggests a new study. By David Kearns  /  University College Dublin Researchers at University...
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    A fabric that “hears” the heart’s sounds; also speaks

    Inspired by the human ear, a new acoustic fabric developed by engineers as MIT and collaborators at Rohde Island School of Design converts audible...
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    Immediately upon taking power, the Taliban ordered that women need not to return to work. They have enforced strict segregation in universities, government offices...
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    A first person account: ‘I speak up for those who cannot’

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    States band together to save migratory species

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    Requiem for a Glacier: Tribute Held in Nepal for One Of The Hindu Kush Himalaya’s Most-Studied Rivers of Ice

    The stones left at the base of the glacier carry messages by two world-famous authors, Manjushree Thapa and Andri Snaer Magnason, in English, Nepali and locally spoken Tibetan.
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    Requiem for a Glacier: Tribute Held in Nepal for One Of The Hindu Kush Himalaya’s Most-Studied Rivers of Ice

    The stones left at the base of the glacier carry messages by two world-famous authors, Manjushree Thapa and Andri Snaer Magnason, in English, Nepali and locally spoken Tibetan.
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