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Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his ...

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has deepened its commitment to cleaner water, better sanitation, and smarter cities by signing five new Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with international ...

A teacher in Jiangxi, China, guided his students through building a two-stage rocket crafted from plastic bottles, powered ...