Word: breakthroughs
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...narrower, more efficient beam enables far more information to be packed onto discs. Blue-laser DVDs promise sharper picture quality suitable for display on advanced flat-screen high-definition TVs and computer monitors. Previously, they were too expensive and unreliable to go in mass-market electronics, but a recent breakthrough in the materials that make up blue-laser diodes (the light-emitting component) has made them commercially viable...
...institute in Dresden--and others like it dotted around Germany--is starting to do things differently. Traditionally, German research universities are rigidly hierarchical. The head of the laboratory gets all the resources and, if there's a breakthrough, all the credit. The Dresden Max Planck Institute takes a more laissez-faire--in fact, a more American--approach. Its faculties are modeled after U.S. universities in which postdoctorate researchers have better access to funding, doing away with the top-down approach. The Dresden institute is also aggressively trying to attract researchers from outside Germany. "We are adapting the U.S. system...
...leaving the front door open when she left the house, "vagueing out" during conversation, struggling with basic instructions. In January last year, at the age of 54, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which doctors predict will end her life within six years unless there's a breakthrough in treatment...
...Paul Mullen had an incredible breakthrough,” McLean-Foreman said. “He’s been working really hard over the summer and will be a talent to watch this season...
...Secret of Life James D. Watson wrote a very personal piece about the death of his colleague Francis Crick [Aug. 9]. In a cover story 33 years ago, TIME described their exhilaration and the impact of their breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA [April...