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Artificial retinas that could restore the vision of millions of people suffering from retinal disorders like age-related macular degeneration could reach the market in just a few years. We may all be bionic before long.

An over-reliance on computer design software is weakening drawing skills among art students–and resulting in uninteresting and uninspired work, according to college art professors.

Mostly the book contained pictures of battles, of vast armored and mounted armies clashing in valleys and mountain passes, in forests or on great open plains.

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A long, long time ago–say, 1990 or so–when I was still at the Saskatchewan Science Centre, the hot technology promising us a near-magical future of levitating trains, cheap power and ultrafast computers was room-temperature superconductors. It’s been a long time coming–a lot longer than some people predicted–but it may be in sight at last.

Winds of Change posts a regular roundup of news about non-fossil-fuel energy sources: the latest one is up.

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Although his leg hurt, and although he had allowed the ancient manservant to help him pull off his borrowed clothes and pull on a borrowed nightshirt, Anton did not go back to bed at once.

Today’s gorgeous Astronomy Photo of the Day, a digital mosaic of the recent solar eclipse over Turkey, led me to this fabulous gallery of astrophotography by Stefan Seip. Check it out!

I am informed by my optometrist I am beginning to suffer from presbyopia. Presbyopia is an affliction that is not, despite, its name, limited to members of a particular Christian denomination with Calvinist roots. Rather, it’s the loss of ability to focus on very close objects. It’s caused by the stiffening of the eye’s internal …

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