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​Official opening of the HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab

Manufacturing companies will get more help in adopting digital technology with the HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab officially opened at NTU. The facility, created through a collaboration between NTU and global technology giant HP, showcases digital manufacturing technologies that can make manufacturing and supply chain operations more efficient, cost-effective and sustainable....




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​NTU Singapore’s annual Open House and Career Fair to go virtual 

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​NTU Singapore’s annual Open House and Career Fair to go virtual 

​The NTU Open House and NTU Career Fair, two of the biggest annual events in the calendar at NTU Singapore, will be presented virtually this year, in response to the evolving Covid-19 situation and advice to avoid crowds and holding large-scale events....




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Burger King's anti-bullying ad is an eye-opener

Burger King released an eye-opening anti-bullying ad by seeing how their own customers responded to bullied kids vs. a bullied burger.




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Pakistan opens first school for transgender students

The Gender Guardian offers 12 years of education, from elementary school to college.




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Kids who create imaginary worlds grow up to be better at open-ended thinking

Study finds that only 17 percent of children create deep imaginary worlds but they also exhibit higher levels of creativity.



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USDA's 'Smart Snacks in School' proposal open for public comment

The USDA wants to set nutritional standards for snacks sold in vending machines, "a la carte" lunch lines and school stores.




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Watch: Designer opens up dingy, diminutive studio in Athens

Although it may strike some as too minimalist, too clinical, this remodel of a cramped studio apartment in Athens is full of clever, space-expanding tricks.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Political Habitat: Open letter to a mad scientist

An MNN column causes an uproar in the scientific and not-so-scientific community. Our columnist responds.



  • Climate & Weather

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Lab, sweet lab: NIST Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility opens

Inside a rather humdrum-looking suburban Washington, D.C., home, the typical family of 4 is replaced by a virtual clan as part of a $2.5M effort to test energy-




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Photos: Hudson Valley Breezehouse opens for business

Snow and near sub-zero temps didn't prevent a horde of prefab admirers — including this blogger — from welcoming Breezehouse to the East Coast.



  • Remodeling & Design

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Canada opens world's longest hiking trail that stretches coast to coast

Open to biking, kayaking and cross-country skiing, this 15,000-mile-trail isn't your run-of-the-mill recreational trail.




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America's 9 most at-risk open urban spaces

It's 'open season on open space,' according to The Cultural Landscape Foundation's 2017 'Landslide' report.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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A chain of floating parks is coming to Copenhagen's revitalized harbor

The Danish capital's urban 'parkipelago' will eventually include a sauna, cafe and mussel farm.



  • Arts & Culture

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Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge opens to the public

The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge opens to the public Sept. 15 amid controversy and concerns.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Salvation Army opens nonprofit grocery store

The Salvation Army's nonprofit grocery store, DMG Foods, has opened in Baltimore with help from the Maryland Food Bank.




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World's first recycled plastic bike path opens in the Netherlands

The Dutch do it again with a new cycling path in the northeastern city of Zwolle that's made from old plastic bottles and packaging.



  • Research & Innovations

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Method to open greenhouse-topped production plant on Chicago's South Side

The style-conscious soap wizards at Method unveil plans for a wind and solar-powered manufacturing facility that will also include rooftop food production.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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The Flow beehive harvests honey without opening hive

The creators of the original Flow Hive are back with a new model.




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10 eye-opening benefits of walking

From your heart to your head, here's why you should lace up your sneakers and walk.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Startlingly big sinkhole opens in New Zealand

A giant sinkhole, the length of two football fields and six stories deep, opened up in a New Zealand farm in Rotorua.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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World's largest indoor vertical farm opens in Chicago

FarmedHere, a new 90,000-square-foot indoor farm, just opened in the suburbs of Chicago and is now the largest facility of its kind in the world.



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DARPA publishes massive online catalog of open source code

The agency hopes that public access to the information will encourage collaboration and innovation across the computer science community.




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McCarthy should open the windows at the EPA, letting in the press and public

Two environmental journalists call for the Environmental Protection Agency to become more open to the press and thus to the public.




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Cities open warming centers to protect the homeless from frigid temps

With frigid weather throughout the country, communities offer the homeless respite from the dangerous temperatures.



  • Climate & Weather

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NYC's 'stairway to nowhere' opens its doors

The 'Vessel' is massive collection of stairs located in New York City's newest development — Hudson Yards.



  • Arts & Culture

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Watch: Greenbuild 2011 opening address

The Greenbuild 2011 keynote address is sure to get you fired up about green building.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Eco-friendly cat shelter opens in Chicago

Harmony House for Cats’ new shelter isn’t just doing something good for Chicago’s felines — it’s also doing something good for the planet. The no-kill




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Danish royalty opens Colorado wind factories

The Danes are helping kick-start Colorado's green energy economy.



  • Research & Innovations

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'Open Building' lets our homes adapt to change

Why not design our homes so that we can get at the things that need to be changed? That's the idea behind "Open Building".



  • Remodeling & Design

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Protests rock Copenhagen, Day 6

Worlds collide as energy corporations, Fortune 500 CEO's, nonprofit leaders and 60,000 protestors try to make sense of the Copenhagen climate talks.



  • Research & Innovations

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Calling in from Copenhagen: MNN blogger Karl Burkart

Video: MNN blogger Karl Burkart chats with Current TV about the politics of blogging at the Copenhagen climate summit.



  • Climate & Weather

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Developing nations walk out of Copenhagen talks

Climate talks in Denmark are on hold after a group of developing nations walked out over concerns about abandoning the Kyoto Protocol.



  • Climate & Weather

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Copenhagen Day 8: G77 walks out, Canada punk'd

Canada does an about-face on its climate target (if only) and the G77 suspends talks after a move to eliminate Kyoto Protocol language.



  • Research & Innovations

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Betting on Copenhagen

A 'prediction market' is betting on the outcome of Copenhagen. Here are 4 experts making their own predictions for COP15.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 9: Official draft released, drama ensues

Ethiopia shocks African nations by supporting the new draft agreement at Copenhagen. Drama sure to ensure tomorrow.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 10: NGO fury

NGO's furious over new draft agreement and a radical reduction of badges at the Bella Center. Only 300 delegates will now be allowed in.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 11: Hillary thwacks ball into China's court

The U.S. secretary of state makes the ACES climate bill targets official and pledges to build a $100 billion fund.



  • Research & Innovations

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The bright side of 'Flopenhagen'

Both environmentalists and U.N. officials agree ... COP15 was a 'failure.' But the 'Copenhagen Accord,' though flawed could mark the messy beginnings of a post-



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Thomas Friedman on Copenhagen

Video: Rachel Maddow is joined by <i>New York Times</i> columnist Thomas Friedman, fresh from attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen for a discus



  • Climate & Weather

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Highlights from Copenhagen

Video clips from the great Copenhagen march for the climate.



  • Research & Innovations

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McDonald&#39;s opens LEED-certified restaurant in N.C.

Fast food and environmentalism aren't always seen as compatible. The owner of this green-built McDonald's hopes to change that.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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OpenTable pays $10 million to buy Foodspotting

Open Table pays $10 million to Foodspotting for its library of user-generated restaurant food photos.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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Is Amazon really opening up to 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores?

If the whispers about Amazon are true, the few independents still left should be afraid, very afraid.



  • Sustainable Business Practices