Eureka! It Really Takes Years of Hard Work
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As humans, we want to believe that creativity and innovation come in flashes of pure brilliance, with great thunderclaps and echoing ahas. Balderdash.
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Recovering 736 missing digital images can be an arduous (and expensive) task.
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Storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea. A better approach may be to buy some time--until new containment technologies mature.
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Adjusting the spin of the revolving door is never easy.
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Imagine the long centuries of the Stone Age, when life was, by definition, hard and there was not a tipple to be had. People in the Middle East came to find a pleasing remedy in the marvel
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The creators of a 130-foot science/art project designed to highlight the relationship between mankind and our energy-hungry machines struggle to make the thing work.
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My husband and I struggle to stay in sync financially, but we get stuck in a rut whenever we look toward the 5-, 10- or even 20-year horizon.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient device that's baffled scientists for a century, finally yields its secrets. In Gear Factor.
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A lot of people put a lot of good work into this screen-filling tale of the young leader who conquered most of the known world in the &#39;20s and &#39;30s of the fourth century BC, but you have to work even harder to follow it.
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Years after graduation, there's still an annual longing for a clean slate.
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Despite the return of its founder, improvement will take time.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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In a new wave of global outsourcing, personal chores are moving offshore, and this is leading to some daunting challenges, both economic and cultural.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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As little as $6,000 a year and some patience can get you there.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light at a cost competitive with power from coal or natural gas. The challenges are formidable.