Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.

MSN: Should we have cloned rare tortoise Lonesome George?

The rest of the world is looking on in horror as a slow motion economic train wreck unfurls.

FORBES: To Save The Euro Germany Must Print Money

Some say the expulsion of these industrious Moors set in motion the decline of Spain as a world power.

ECONOMIST: New uses for an old pastime

Good, then meet Alexa from ARRI, a German company founded in 1917 that just happens to be the world's largest motion picture equipment manufacturer.

ENGADGET: ARRI Alexa joins RED to kill celluloid in 2010

Best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy motion picture: Kidman, Thora Birch ("Ghost World"), Cate Blanchett ("Bandits"), Reese Witherspoon ("Legally Blonde") and Renee Zellweger ("Bridget Jones's Diary").

CNN: Globes: 'Beautiful,' 'Moulin' golden

Chopra explains that being in touch with the this kind of consciousness is what sports players, ballet dancers, and musicians experience when they enter a moment of utter connectedness with their art: the mind is clear, the world appears in slow motion, and all internal dialogue fades away.

FORBES: Deepak Chopra on the Science - and Soul - of Business

As a boy, he saw the 1925 silent fantasy "The Lost World, " Willis O'Brien's stop-motion movie about dinosaurs in a South American jungle.

NPR: Special Effects Master Ray Harryhausen Dies At 92

Based in San Francisco, Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world's most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology.

ENGADGET: Leap Motion taps former Apple iAd VP Andy Miller to be President and COO

Second Sight Medical Products developed the world's first working bionic eye, which could soon be available in the US, and fashion company Machina produced the world's first jacket to combine a MIDI controller with motion sensors -- essentially, it's a jacket that turns your body into a synthesizer.

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WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 9, 2012) - Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today learned that the Judge in a patent action brought by Mformation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted RIM's motion for judgment as a matter of law, concluding that the evidence did not support the Jury's finding of patent infringement.

ENGADGET: RIM escapes $147.2 million hit as Mformation appeal ends in victory