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Five years ago, British scientist Colin Pillinger convinced the world's biggest medical-research charity, the Wellcome Trust, to bet on a project far beyond its usual scope: a probe to find life on Mars. Detecting life on other planets, he argued, would be a giant leap for mankind toward understanding the origins of life back on earth. But in 2003, the Beagle 2 probe - worth tens of millions of dollars, and carrying a gas-analysis unit bankrolled by Wellcome - disappeared without a trace into the Martian atmosphere. Four years later, scientists and funders alike are delighted...
...Open University's Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute in Milton Keynes, England, Pillinger and his colleague Geraint Morgan have built upon research they originally did for the Beagle project in order to create a diagnostic tool with the potential to save countless lives. Their device - about the size of a microwave oven - may not look like much, but it detects tuberculosis (TB), the highly infectious, hard-to-diagnose disease that often infects the lungs and kills more than 1.5 million people worldwide each year...
...years. Set to debut in 2009, the new look will still have the familiar portrait of the 16th President on the heads side, but tails will feature one of four scenes from his life. (Being considered is one of Lincoln speaking before the Illinois legislature.) That is, if the project survives. It was approved two years ago, before metal prices jumped. At last count, each penny cost 1.67¢ to produce...
...campus in Allston. Behnisch is the architect of Harvard’s planned science complex, a 589,000-square-foot building that received approval from Boston last month. The complex—which will include winter gardens, skybridges, and an enclosed courtyard—will be the first project built across the Charles River. As the first architect to take a crack at the Allston campus, Behnisch faces the pressure of living up to the image of a university better known for brick and ivy than glass and limestone. According to the chief operating officer for the University?...
David Lynch is no stranger to weird confluences. But the U.S. filmmaker, known for such works as Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, failed to anticipate the reception his latest project got in Germany this week. Lynch, whose new-age beliefs are sometimes as quirky as his movies, is touring Europe to help establish a network of so-called "invincible universities" to teach the philosophy of transcendental meditation. The idea is to engender world peace. But at a meeting this week at a culture center in Berlin, Lynch triggered a less than peaceful exchange with German onlookers when Emanuel Schiffgens...