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Teens’ Invention Could Save Our Planet AND Revolutionize Space Travel

These teenagers could single-handedly change the way we combat climate change. In modern times, teenagers are somehow amazing scientists with their in-depth research and inventions, proving that age is just a number and intelligence and drive are key when …
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The invention of sarin gas was an accident. A German scientist was trying to kill bugs.

The enemy wasn’t Syrian rebels. It was the weevil, a voracious beetle found in fields and orchards. Ask a gardener about weevils. Or Orkin, the pest control experts, which says “they can be very destructive, and their damage is often very expensive.”
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New invention means no more folding

A company says its new invention means your won’t have to fold clothes again. The machine, called ThreadRobe, lets you dump in a load of clothes after laundry and have the machine automatically separates and hang the items in a wardrobe. When you are ready …
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The invention nobody appreciated: the calculator, 50 years on

Employees who don’t feel adequately appreciated by their bosses will certainly sympathise with story of US physicist Jack Kilby. The story goes back nearly 60 years when he invented something brilliant that his employer, Texas Instruments, barely would …
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New invention uses bacteria to purify water

A new system that uses bacteria to turn non-potable water into drinking water will be tested next week in West Vancouver prior to being installed in remote communities in Canada and beyond. A University of British Columbia-developed system that uses …
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Simple oil field invention could save lives

WATFORD CITY — Pat Young did a dangerous oil field job so many hundreds of times he figured there had to be a better way He thought about it for a long time, stood in front of it, studied the problem, drew the angles then went to the shop with drawings …
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