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As Judge Richard Matsch gets set to decide whether to accpet a delay in Timothy McVeigh's executions, signs are that the case could be in for a long summer. The story so far: Last Thursday, after meeting with their client in Terre Haute, Indiana, lawyers for the convicted bomber...
Working with colleagues at Duke, M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics (also known as the Touch Lab) and the State University of New York Health Science Center, Nicolelis implanted electrodes into the sections of the monkeys' brains in which the planning and execution of arm movements takes place...
The da Vinci is a descendant of a U.S. Department of Defense project in the 1980s to create a robot that would allow surgeons to operate on critically wounded soldiers from a safe distance, or even perform emergency surgery on astronauts on Mars. The scientists envisioned easily deployed surgical units...
The Hanssen indictment came the same day that outgoing FBI Director Louis Freeh admitted on Capitol Hill that bureau archivists had discovered still more stray papers in the McVeigh case--after Freeh's 16th document request to FBI field offices. Ashcroft pushed back McVeigh's execution until June 11. McVeigh...
Indeed, while the execution has proved difficult, the idea is very simple. Tumors, like any other cells, need oxygen and nutrients to survive. At first they eat their way through healthy tissue, looking for blood vessels to tap for these essentials. Eventually, though, they start to grow their own capillaries...