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Space Elevator: The Future of Mankind or Fiction

Building a space elevator will be without a speck of a doubt the single largest and most expensive structure ever built by humanity.

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Twitter To Ban All Political Advertisements

Twitter will no longer allow political advertisements on its platform, according to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday. This is a major step as tech companies work to deal with misinformation ahead of the 2020 election.

New Study Triples Global Estimates Of Population Threatened By Sea Level Rise

Hundreds of millions of people across the globe will be at risk of losing their homes as whole cities sink under the rising sea levels over the next three decades, according to a Climate Central study published in the journal Nature Communications on October 29.

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China on track to meet its ultra-low emissions goal for 2020

The world’s largest source of greenhouse emissions, China is on track to meet its ultra-low emissions goal for 2020, according to new research published in Nature Energy on October 7.

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The 2019 Nobel Prize Winners

The 2019 Nobel Prize winners were awarded in October. From the discovery of the mechanism that cells use to sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels in the body to work on alleviating world poverty. Below are all the winners in the order they were awarded.

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The Nobel Prize in Economics was Awarded to Trio for Their Work on Poverty. One was the Youngest Recipient Ever.

By Teodor Teofilov Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics on October 14 for their work on alleviating global poverty by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Abhijit Banerjee, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Esther Duflo, also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Kremer, a professor […]

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for Efforts for Peace, in Particular in Resolving Eritrea Border Conflict

The Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded on October 11 to the prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, for his work in restarting peace talks with neighboring Eritrea and beginning the restoration of freedoms in his country after decades of political and economic repression.