List of Science and Technology articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An App Won’t Solve India’s Bloated Bureaucracy Problem
Narendra Modi’s whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley won't make up for India’s inability to implement economic reforms at home.
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The reconstructed remains of Pan Am flight 103 lie in a warehouse on January 15, 2008 in Farnborough, England. The Air Accident Investigation Branch have housed the remains of the Boeing 747 for the past 19 years. 20 years ago a terrorist bomb exploded on-board destroying the aircraft over the Scottish town of Lockerbie killing 270 people including 11 people on the ground. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Modi Goes Coast to Coast
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's return to the United States will further strengthen steadily improving relations between the two countries on a number of fronts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Building the Kremlin’s Big Brother
Inside the minds of the engineers and computer scientists developing phone taps and facial recognition software for Moscow’s security apparatus -- no questions asked.
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Brain2 This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain as a Weapon.
Cutting-edge brain technologies can erase traumatic memories and read people’s thoughts. They could also become the 21st century’s most dangerous weapons.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 As Saudi Arabia Grapples With MERS Outbreak, a Vaccine Is in Sight
Researchers discovered a way to prevent the virus that is on the rise in Riyadh. But it won't be ready before the hajj.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Aviation Authorities: Plane Groundings Not Due to a Hack
A failed software update -- not a hack -- kept planes in the Washington, D.C., region on the ground Saturday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Malaysia Confirms Debris Comes From Missing Airliner
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Thursday morning that an airplane fragment found late last month was debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vladimir Putin’s Good-Cop, Bad-Cop Act
Russia's leader wins President Obama's praise for his role in the Iran nuclear deal. But ongoing disputes from Syria to Ukraine raise doubts about the prospects for truly friendly relations.
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Bakau, GAMBIA: Election officials set up marbles on a board to count the votes after the presidential elections in Bakau early 22 September 2006. Early results today showed Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in a coup 12 years ago, was on track to win a third term as president of mainland Africa's smallest country. Jammeh has won in 12 of the 48 voting regions to have reported provisional results from yesterday's presidential election, according to the results released by the commission over national television and radio.AFP PHOTO SEYLLOU (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Obama’s Vision of a Weakened Iran Doesn’t Add Up
President Obama's rosy predictions of a weaker Iran are a dangerous gamble — and one to be deeply skeptical of.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Apple Is Sitting on a Pile of Cash Roughly Equivalent to Qatar’s Entire Economy
The tech giant's quarterly earnings shed further light on the enormous scale of the company.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saudi Arabia in the North Sea
The chilly waters of northern Scotland have become the testing ground for the next generation of green energy. If the engineers can pull it off.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Soldiers and motorcycles: An excerpt from Elizabeth Samet’s ‘No Man’s Land’
Last March, back home in Seattle from his deployment, Kevin headed out on his bike across the country.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Try to ID these weapons of World War III
A compilation of some of the weapons silhouettes that might make an appearance in the future of war.
