Although the study focused on innovation in science, the data proved that face-to-face communication was more impactful, leading to less agenda-driven and more fluid conversations, brainstorming, problem solving, and serendipitous accidents.

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This might not seem a big deal, but it is the first time science has proved what was hitherto mere speculation: that the brain, when dreaming, behaves like the brain when awake.

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What these two books do offer is a satisfying picture of a man who believed that the sciences and the humanities were complementary, not separate, and who proved that science affects, and is affected by, all the rest of human experience.

ECONOMIST: Robert Oppenheimer

Sadly, the history of science is replete with investigators who were discredited by the status quo but who were eventually proved right: Galileo, Semmelweis, Pasteur, Ohm, Nott, Zweig and Rous, to name a few.

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Among the lottery-funded projects which have proved less of an instant success are the Millennium Dome, Millennium Bridge and Glasgow Science Centre Tower.

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