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  1. Conservators scan Ukraine’s wooden churches to help preserve them2025/01/09
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  2. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines2024/12/19
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  3. Argentina tries to fight the theft of its precious meteorites2024/11/08

    Northern Argentina’s Campo del Cielo is where the world's largest mass of meteorites has been found. And it has also been plagued by theft for years, something Argentina is trying to fight.

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  4. ‘We have to care for every soldier, for every civilian’: Ukraine faces major mental health challenges as a result of war trauma  2024/10/29
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  5. Why a megacity in India is reviving the humble water well2024/10/03

    In the Indian tech hub of Bengaluru, water has become a precious commodity. One initiative leverages an age-old, well-digging technique to help residents tap into a forgotten source.

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  6. Seafood cultivated in a lab could help mitigate the next pandemic2024/08/08
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  7. New project seeks to solve housing crisis using mushroom byproduct and troublesome weed2024/07/22
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  8. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth2024/07/10
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  9. This club in the Netherlands offers a much-needed break from technology2024/06/13

    Most people are at least a little addicted to their phones. In the Netherlands, three young Dutchmen came up with an idea to counteract that. It’s called the Offline Club, where attendees pay for the opportunity to spend an evening phone-free.

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  10. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s internet2024/06/11

    A US-based cyber security expert gets hacked by North Korea. He hacks back. Takes out the entire country's limited internet for nine days. We get the story from Dina Temple-Raston, of the podcast Click Here.

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