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With simple words, mapping apps offer help to refugees, slum dwellers 13 Oct 2019 - 08:53 pm
Representative image: A Cambodian farmer learns how to use the MobilES app in Tmat, Paelly village, Cambodia on March 14 2019 Thomson Reuters Foundation Jeffrey Barbee
Using electric buses in climate fight faces hurdles, report finds 13 Oct 2019 - 08:53 pm
Colombian city of Cali launches a fleet of 26 electric buses, September 2019. (Courtesy of Cali mayor office)
Facebook researchers use maths for better translations 13 Oct 2019 - 09:11 am
FILE PHOTO: A 3-D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed binary code in this illustration picture, June 18, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo
Twitch, another streaming site used in shooting 10 Oct 2019 - 06:39 pm
German gunman Stephan Balliet, 27, opening a bag of munitions in his car before a deadly shooting in the German city of Halle in a video grab from a self-shot video released on Twitch on October 9, 2019.  AFP / Twitch
Battery pioneers who made mobile revolution possible win Nobel chemistry prize 10 Oct 2019 - 09:30 am
American professor and solid-state physicist, John Goodenough, one of three winners of the Nobel Chemistry Prize, attends a press conference at The Royal Society in London on October 9, 2019. AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS
From Med's biggest nesting ground, turtles swim to uncertain future 09 Oct 2019 - 09:04 pm
Newborn loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) head towards the sea after got free from their eggshells at a beach in Kyparissia, south west Greece, on September 23, 2019.  AFP / Aris Messinis
3 win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmos 08 Oct 2019 - 05:16 pm
Members of the Nobel Committee for Physics (Bottom L-R) Chair of the Nobel Committee Mats Larsson, Secretary General of the Academy Goran K Hansson, and Ulf Danielsson sit in front of a screen displaying the portraits of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Priz
Paralysed man hails "feat" of walking again with robot exoskeleton 08 Oct 2019 - 02:56 pm
This handout combination of photographs taken on September 2019 and released on October 3, 2019, by Clinatec Endowment Fund (fonds de dotation Clinatec) shows French tetraplegic 'Thibault' as he stands while wearing an exo-skeleton at The University of Gr
UK 'farm lab' ploughs technology to help raise animals sustainably 07 Oct 2019 - 08:48 pm
Sheep grazing at “Farm Lab” of Rothamsted Research in North Wyke, Devon, England, Sep 13, 2019, in this screengrab taken from video. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Thin Lei Win
Trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for work on cells, oxygen 07 Oct 2019 - 01:13 pm
Nobel Assembly members (L-R) Patrik Ernfors, Anna Wedell and Randall Johnson sit in front of a screen displaying the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (L-R) Gregg Semenza, Peter Ratcliffe and William Kaelin after their names were a
Scientists say 'fatbergs' are gross, but not a health hazard 06 Oct 2019 - 07:55 pm
A dried section of the Whitechapel fatberg, on display at the Museum of London. (Lord Belbury/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tens of thousands of goats munch Greek island into crisis 06 Oct 2019 - 10:20 am
File picture of the landscape. Wikipedia
Scientists fight to save unique Guiana coral reef 04 Oct 2019 - 09:39 pm
This September 3, 2019 picture shows a dolphin with a remora on its back swimming with Esperanza, the environmentalist organization Greenpeace's boat sailing on the Amazon reef off the French Guiana coast. AFP / Pierre Trihan
UK particle accelerator to reveal secrets of 2,000-year-old papyrus 03 Oct 2019 - 08:30 pm
Fragment of Herculaneum scroll is fixed in place at a Diamond Light Source experimental station after it was scanned using bright x-rays in Didcot, Britain, September 30, 2019.  Reuters/George Sargent.
Fur seal moms, pups find refuge on steaming Alaska volcano 03 Oct 2019 - 08:30 pm
Photo courtesy: fisheries.noaa.gov
Fish-hunting 'iron dragon' soared over Australia in age of dinosaurs 03 Oct 2019 - 08:30 pm
An artist's rendition of the Australian Cretaceous Period pterosaur Ferrodraco lentoni is seen in this image released October 3, 2019. Travis R. Tischler/Handout via Reuters
US government research in 'crisis,' warns think tank 03 Oct 2019 - 06:56 pm
Research into the effects of vaping is conducted at the lab of Dr. Robert Tarran at UNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 18, 2019. Reuters/Gershon Peaks
Catch 'em all: Tens of thousands join Taiwan Pokemon Go Safari 03 Oct 2019 - 12:23 pm
Visitors play Pokemon Go on their phones during the opening day of the Pokemon Go Safari Zone at the New Taipei Metropolitan Park in New Taipei City on October 3, 2019. / AFP / Daniel Shih