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    Solving the Challenges of Robotic Pizza Making

    A new technique could enable a robot to manipulate squishy objects like pizza dough or soft materials like clothing. Adam Zewe  |  MIT News Office Imagine...
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    Discrimination, Debt and Depression: Delhi’s Transgender people through COVID-19

    A sense of trepidation hung wordlessly in the air as volunteers milled around corridors when Aarohan’s doors reopened for staff, volunteers and members of...
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    A Thing (or Two) of Beauty…… in Asia’s Forests

    A new publication has distilled evidence of how forests from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam are the source of ingredients for the global...
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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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    Taliban Resurrect Gender Segregation in Public Places

    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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