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In early 2014, internet sleuths found a YouTube channel called Webdriver Torso that had uploaded more than 77,000 videos. Each was 11 seconds long and identical in form: a series… READ THE REST

University of Rochester researchers have built a solar-powered desalination device that doesn't leave behind brine — the concentrated saltwater that conventional plants dump back into the ocean, where it raises… READ THE REST

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