Researchers in Switzerland have designed a system where children teach robot students how to write, and in the process improve their own handwriting skills. This learning by teaching paradigm, they say, could engage unmotivated students as well as boos...
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No more: Italy Refused to Take More Mediterranean Migrants
Italian politicians based in the north vowed not to shelter any more migrants saved at sea, even as thousands more were being rescued in the Mediterranean from smugglers' boats in distress,
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Yangtze Ship Disaster: Nearly 400 Confirmed Dead
Nearly 400 bodies are recovered from a Chinese ship that capsized on the Yangtze River. Only 14 survivors, one of them the captain, were found after the ship carrying 456 people sank on Monday night.
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New Jersey governor sues to stop to ocean sonic boom research
(Reuters) - Governor Chris Christie's administration went to federal court on Friday in the hopes of stopping an underwater study off New Jersey's coast during summer tourism season, saying sonic boom research would endanger marine mammals and other sp...
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Trouble looms as warmer oceans push marine life toward the poles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising sea temperatures attributed to global climate change could drive many marine creatures away from the equator, but their move toward the poles promises to put them in peril in habitats that are smaller and less hospitable, ...
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NTSB to Meet on Houston Ship Collision
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will meet June 9 to discuss the vessel collision that took place in the Houston ship channel March 22, 2014.
The
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Death Toll at 103 from Capsized China Vessel
The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship which capsized on the Yangtze River rose to 103 on Friday, state television said.
China's Central Television said on
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68 People Found in Container at Harwich Port
Men and women of a range of different nationalities were found inside the locked container at Harwich International Port, UK last night.
Border police are
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Capsized Chinese Ship: Chance of Survivors Slim
Huge cranes righted the Eastern Star, the capsized Chinese cruise ship, but still submerged in water. The next step would be to lift it. Authorities said they would search every cabin,
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Meet ‘Hellboy,’ the dinosaur with exotic horns and frill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists had a heck of a time getting the remarkable fossil of a dinosaur they dubbed "Hellboy" out of the hard limestone along a Canadian river bank where it was entombed for 68 million years, but the diabolic task proved grat...
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