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Future virtual reality (VR) headsets could use a new type of lens inspired by holographic devices, researchers in China say. This proposed new type of bifocal lens can switch between one focus and another at the flick of a switch,

The Civil Service has now entered the pre-election period. The National Archives is a government department and during this time, our website and communications channels will be quieter than usual and many activities will be paused until a Government is

Allied soldiers rescued the portrait and other works from Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle in 1945. Bettmann via Getty Images In an iconic 1945 photograph, four American soldiers stand on the steps of a German castle while holding three precious paintings. The

Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three

SHOW NOTES:   Sources: “Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40” Interviewed by Herbert Gold, Paris Review,  Summer-Fall 1967, No. 41  “A ‘Lolita’ for the ‘90s” by Sean Mitchell And John M. Wilson, LA Times, June 10, 1990  “‘Lolita’ Loses

Climate change, political unrest, random violence – Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, “a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of chaos and darkness.” In the United States, polls indicate that

Barnes Neville Wallis. Early life and education Wallis’s early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles Wallis, was a doctor, but young Barnes developed an early fascination with mechanical objects, much to his father’s

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