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A generation of extremely efficient farmers increasingly sees irrigation as a non-viable alternative while mulling over a switch from water-intense cotton and wheat to rain-fed sorghum and grains
A safer generation of airships, otherwise known as dirigibles, is trying to usher in a low-carbon future for air cargo
Pinning down the universe's missing mass remains one of cosmology's biggest challenges
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As South Africa angles for a massive telescope project, its own SALT telescope has been offline for a year
A new proposal contends that stars formed alongside our sun might be recognizable, even after billions of years of separation
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