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"Communities need libraries more than they ever have don... are in a superb position to help [during difficult econo...
"People who say 'we don't need libraries because it's al ...

Amid China's tumultuous dash to become rich, one man's p...
Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ...
The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of m ...
But seen more closely, they also show the enormous socia ...
Elderly Chi

Computer science is going to become part of the English ... of the measures used in school league tables in England.
It will be included as one of the science options that c ...

Five hundred musical instruments, powered only by the wi...
The sound made by the instruments, some conventional and ...
French composer Pierre Sauvageot, along with French grou ...
He explains how it works and how his team went about ins ...
"Harmonic F

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have ... the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought ...
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and ...
It could be this uninhibited processing that allows crea

Carrying a posy of bright flowers, Dorthe Frydenlund str...
Mrs Frydenlund is among those pioneering a novel way to ...
Nestling amongst the colourful plants and vases is a sto ...
Mrs Frydenlund's 14-year-old son Nikolai has a smartphon ...
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The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact l... users a much wider field of vision.
The lenses are designed to be paired with compact heads ...
Much bulkier HUDs are already deployed by the US Army an ...

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

A photo provided by the Bulgarian National Institute of ...
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Broken sleep affects the ability to build memories, a st... suggests.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science findi ...
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At the beginning of the last century, the power of natio... measured in battleships and coal.
In this century it's as likely to be graduates.
There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numb ...
Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rate

Business Secretary Vince Cable says it has been a challe... government to explain to the public how bad a state the ...
He told the Guardian the country was poorer because of t ...
Britain is no longer one of the "price-setters" in world ...
"We have ha

Harvard researcher rejects Google's 'personal attack'
Google logo Google is under investigation by the Europea ...
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... onal attacks" to distract people from its own behaviour.

Ross Anderson, an academic in the Computer Laboratory at...
"It's a complete non-starter," he told the BBC.
"You can't just change all the systems because you come ...
He does however agree that there are "significant risks" ...
"I personally won't use

The Book Hive The honeycomb installation interacts with ... past triggering sensors to make the books rustle

Some of the threats for the coming year are lower-tech -... stickers placed over the QR codes used by firms to allow...
QR codes typically appear on posters. Once scanned with ...
Train stations, for example, use QR codes to allow passe ...
But cybercr

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"The 20th Century was about dozens of markets of million ...
Joe Kraus, dotcom pioneer

In pictures: Rare lenticular clouds over West Yorkshire
Cloud over Leeds
Cloud over Denholme
More properly known as Altocumulus Lenticularis, the clo ...
... Image 2 of 7

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks ... give out, estimates suggest.
Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which t ...

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... have a prosthetic hand made with 3D printing technology.

Mairi Hedderwick andCherry Campbell Mairi Hedderwick say... in her books is based on her childhood dreams of island life
Mairi Hedderwick did not grow up on a Scottish island, s ...

Microsoft researchers have designed a smart bra that can...
The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor he ...

NotFound page The project changes 404 pages to display i...
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... missing children on the well-known 404 Not Found pages.