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“One half of the eye points upwards to capture the tiny amount of sunlight that makes its way this deep - this half contains a lens, and is similar to a human eye. It looks for shadows passing above the source...

“GROWING human cells in a laboratory is easy. Making those cells arrange themselves into something that resembles human flesh is, however, anything but. So-called tissue engineers have mastered the arts of artificial skin and bladders, and recently they have managed source...

“Charles Dickens’ character Scrooge has lasted for more than two centuries because we love to witness a villain who stubbornly refuses to see the value of human connection and kindness – and then, suddenly, gets it! Scrooge comes to mind source...

“Think of the intermediate file fib.s as containing a version of the original program stripped of all abstractions. Each line corresponds to a single machine instruction, and all that remains is to translate this barely human-readable shorthand into the binary source...

“If there is some underlying theme for where we are going, the simple observation would be: decentralization. Human societies are becoming increasingly interconnected, networked and collaborative. These new social designs, thanks to modern technological tools, are transforming our world. There source...

“ "By reducing the friction that hinders motion and contributes to wear and tear, the new technique provides a theoretical means for improving machinery at the microscopic and even molecular level," Dr. Duane Alexander of the NIH's National Institute of source...

“THE baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert. Twenty centimetres from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it intently. source...

“A study funded by NASA has flagged up yet another terrible hazard for those no longer able to get excited about nuclear war, global pandemics, terrorism, climate change, economic meltdown and asteroid strike. Top space brainboxes say that even if source...

“Mathematics is not some austere and perfect edifice, to be scaled only by the bravest of climbers. Mathematics is a human activity, and humans come in many kinds. This is hopefully something for us tinkerers and dabblers. I aim to source...

“"It all goes back to neurofeedback that has been around for 50 years, where you can record activity coming from the human brain through the scalp," said Melvyn Goodale, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience at the University of Western source...

“Darrell Fandrich is a micromaker of pianos, importing instruments from China and parts from Europe and the U.S. and rebuilding them as Fandrich & Sons pianos. A craftsman in an assembly-line world, Fandrich hopes that human touch can turn back source...

“Henry Hazlitt, noted economist, author, editor, reviewer and columnist, is well known to readers of the New York Times, Newsweek, The Freeman, Bar­ron’s, Human Events and many others. Best known of his books are Economics in One Lesson, The Failure source...

“ "By reducing the friction that hinders motion and contributes to wear and tear, the new technique provides a theoretical means for improving machinery at the microscopic and even molecular level," Dr. Duane Alexander of the NIH's National Institute of source...

“ Can the economy grow fast enough in real terms to redeem the massive increase in debt? In a word, no. As Frederick Soddy (1926 Nobel Laureate chemist and underground economist) pointed out long ago, “you cannot permanently pit an source...

“Its approval would be a major step toward new kinds of medications made not from chemicals, but from living organisms genetically manipulated by scientists. Similar drugs could be available in the next few years for a range of human ailments, source...