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he African continent is finally free of the wild poliovirus, 24 years after Nelson Mandela helped Rotary International launch its Kick Polio Out of Africa campaign.
The first new undersea base in over 30 years, Fabien, the grandson of Jacques Cousteau, hopes Proteus will be the ISS of the oceans.
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The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru created a billboard that generates potable water out of thin air.
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