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Chris Bishop paces as he beams the world’s biggest laser at a peppercorn-sized fuel pellet, a crucial step toward fusing hydrogen atoms to replicate the explosive power of the sun, stars and thermonuclear weapons.
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Could I say a word about Paul Krugman? A recent blog post by the eminent economist and New York Times columnist struck me as out of the ordinary, even for him. Krugman was responding to critics who accuse him of seeing everybody who disagrees with him as either a fool or a knave. He says that’s not right: Many of those who disagree with him are sociopaths.
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Mathematics can be beguilingly elegant. It can also be dangerous when people mistake its elegance for truth.
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The topic of ocean conservation comes up almost daily in the household of Susan and David Rockefeller Jr.
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Albert Einstein’s postcard to his sick mother joyfully reporting proof of the bending of light and a letter suggesting a solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict have been put online.
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Toyota Motor Corp. lost its bid to dismiss a Florida company’s patent-infringement claim that may result in a ban on imports of the carmaker’s newest hybrid models including the Prius and Camry.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s experimental malaria vaccine becomes less effective over time, researchers in Kenya found, indicating that booster shots may be needed.
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Albert Einstein is often quoted (perhaps apocryphally) as saying, "If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would spend 19 days to define it." Innovation is a particularly sticky problem because it so often remains undefined. We treat it as a monolith, as if every innovation is the same, which is why so many expensive programs end up going nowhere. So how should we go about...
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TiVo Inc. said it may be entitled to billions of dollars in damages should it win its patent- infringement lawsuit against Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility unit over digital-video recording technology.
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As American billionaire Phillip Frost prepared to take over as chairman of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in March 2010, some investors fretted about what would become of Israel’s crown jewel.
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