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Into this crowded agora comes David Bowers' Astro Boy, an animated feature based on Osamu Tezuka's 1951 manga series that spawned a TV cartoon series from the '60s. (I confess I never saw it, because I was out doing stuff that decade.) The new version, streamlined and Americanized, but with animation from the Hong Kong company Imagi, lacks the brand recognition of the big CGI studios, but the movie has its charms. It's fun, encyclopedically derivative and pretty darned affecting. (See TIME's pictures "Animated Movies: Not Just for Kids...
Dayak customs are disappearing fast as younger generations leave longhouses for logging jobs or work in the cities, growing accustomed to the comforts of an industrialized world - you'll see a thousand gray Astro satellite dishes around Belaga before marking a wild hornbill along the turbid Rajang. I sip limeades with Calvin at a riverfront café on my last night in town. He points to a weathered chieftain's tomb on the opposite bank, a wooden blur amid ferns and rubber and durian trees. The family hasn't maintained it for years, and restoration is unlikely. It's getting...
Imprecise measurement has long crippled efforts to find Earth-like planets that may represent scientists’ best hope at finding extraterrestrial life, but Harvard scientists say a new laser-based measuring tool could bring the universe into sharper focus. The astro-comb allows astronomers to discover Earth-size planets, which are most likely to support extraterrestrial life because larger planets tend to be entirely gaseous and inhospitable to organisms like those on Earth. The laser provides a way to measure the near-imperceptible changes in a star’s light that are induced by orbiting planets. Planet gravity...
...verdict had little effect on the markets in the Philippines; investors were relieved. "It seems like there was no violent reaction so far, so that is why investors are taking advantage of the bargain prices in the market," said Astro del Castillo, director of the Association of Securities Analysts of the Philippines. "This is one thorn off our back...
...When he sold the company in 2000--just before the Internet-stock bubble burst--the undisclosed selling price was big enough to allow Kavli to return to the great unanswered questions of basic science that had long fascinated him. He wanted to endow major prizes for research in his astro-nano-neuro triad, the fields he thinks will produce the most exciting discoveries in the coming centuries. In particular, he wanted to finance early-stage research, the bold ideas that may be many years away from producing tangible results. Quantum physics, for example, seemed totally impractical until engineers used...