First implantation of prototype bionic eye

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In a major development, Bionic Vision Australia researchers have successfully performed the first implantation of an early prototype bionic eye with 24 electrodes.

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FAA smooths path to commercial spaceflight

post from Planetary Society Blog on 31 August 2012 12:30:53 PM. © Planetary Society Blog

The FAA will allow operators of Class III amateur rockets to apply for launch licenses, smoothing the path for commercial spaceflight providers.

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Control Computers With Plants Disney Magic Makes
It Happen

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What if anything — a surface, a plant, or even parts of your own body — could become a touch [...]

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akes-it-happen/

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New treatment stabilizes Alzheimer's progression

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Widespread media coverage tells us today of a new drug that ?halts? Alzheimer?s symptoms ?for three years?.

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Why is religion declining in the US

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I have referred before to the WIN-Gallup survey of 57 countries that showed a decline in religion worldwide and a rise in disbelief.

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Mathematics made even more beautiful

post from Top stories on 31 August 2012 10:42:27 AM. © Top stories

Mathematics has always been a beautiful discipline, but its appeal is of an austere kind that takes some effort to fully appreciate. But computers and simulations now enable people to create visualizations of the beauty that they could formerly only create in their minds.

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Walls of lunar crater may hold patchy ice

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Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater.

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Tau Zero: The Steps Ahead

by Marc Millis Recently I asked you, our readership, what you want from an interstellar organization, given the emergence of Kelvin Long?s Interstellar Institute and the pending symposium of the 100 Year Starship Organization. How to sort out which[...]

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Bentley Continental GT Widebody: Does It Work

There's the school of thought that goes, anything worth building is worth building as a widebody. And it's not like this is our first widebody Bentley--there's always at least one at SEMA. But this one, built by Ultimate Auto in Florida, is out there. Too much? Judging from the way the vote at

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