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Solar lantern lights up rural India's dark nights

For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1




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Planet Imager will enable telescopes to image extrasolar planets directly

The best way to observe objects in solar systems is simply to look -- but distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere drown out much of the spectacle of space. To address this problem, Berkeley astronomer James ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 14


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