But given the fact that the Paperwhite has a higher resolution than its closest competitor (the GlowLight) and the newer technology means a generally smoother light distribution, the text is sharper and easier-to-read than on any other Kindle.

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Tony Tyson and David Wittman, who work at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, in New Jersey, and their collaborators have proposed building a telescope that estimates the distribution of mass in the past by analysing these deflected light-waves, a technique known as three-dimensional mass tomography.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology