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Indian researchers develop self-cleaning glass that uses sunlight to purify water
Most sewage treatment plants are capable of filtering out the solid particles and toxic inorganic compounds from waste water. However, it is the microbes and organic pollutants like dyes, drugs and detergents that pose the real problem as it is extremely difficult to filter them out. Now researchers at IIT Mandi, India, have developed self-cleaning transparent calcium borate glasses and titanium dioxide glass...
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Man celebrating his own birthday jumps into chilly river to save a drowning dog
Last week, Gabe Castellanos had been celebrating his birthday with some friends on the Brooklyn Barge when they spotted a dog in the water and assumed it was going for a swim on a hot day. But when the dog kept swimming farther from the pier, its petsitter suddenly approached the group and said that Harper had run away. That’s when Castellanos realized that Harper the dog was on the verge of drowning and...
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This Mumbai woman gives street singers the chance to live a life of dignity
Nine years ago, while boarding a local train in Mumbai on her way to a musical show, Hemlata Tiwari was mesmerized by the voice and talent of two street singers who were welcoming the travelers. Later that evening, as she listened to the musical show performers on stage, her mind kept going back to the two street singers she’d heard on the local train. That’s when an idea struck her that with a...
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