This is a machine, familiar from science fiction, which some engineers think could be made science fact.
Space elevators are slowly making the transition from science fiction to science fact... but we're not quite there yet.
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It has end-to-end product responsibility across mobile, tablet and domestic appliances for what Dennis calls turning science fiction into science fact.
Long the stuff of science fiction, technology that can directly tap into, augment, and connect human brains is becoming science fact.
So there's a complex dialectic between science fact and science fiction.
While man may not yet have colonised the moon as he predicted, Arthur C Clarke's science fiction does have a habit of becoming science fact.
Clarke, of the musings of a science-fiction author becoming science fact.
Most people thought it would remain in this aspirational realm for a while longer, but thanks to recent research by Brown University neuroscientist Takeo Watanabe, what has long been science fiction may soon become science fact.
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His books were already a success, but it was from a space age home he built near Colombo that the bulk of his work has been done - more than 60 titles of science fact and fiction, translated into more than 20 twenty languages around the world.
At this late stage, the documents are almost totally bereft of any reference to science, despite the fact that science is a prolific producer and user of information and knowledge.
However, science sometimes loses insight, scientists lose insight to the fact that science is not a method for exploring ultimate truth, it is a method for exploring perceptual truth.
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Reality mining may appear to be more science fiction than fact, but from our cell phones to e-mail to work ID badges, we leave behind constant trails of information about ourselves.
It's a science-proven fact (or, at least, there's a study supporting it): Social networks like Facebook increase jealousy, partly because information is much more accessible, and that information can often be ambiguous.
There is a big problem, not so much about the number of people doing science, as the fact that it has got very skewed towards particular areas of science, such as IT and biology, and we are losing out on people doing some of the harder subjects such as physics and chemistry.
On the other side, many science journalists resent the fact that these criticisms are unfairly painted across the profession.
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Of course, the fact that science has not, to date, shown conclusively that chocolate - pure or impure, in bar-form or egg-shaped - causes acne is unlikely to stop adults using the threat of spots to try and slow down their children's intake.
Add that to the fact that science now is questioning whether there is any difference at all between sociopaths and psychopaths, and that those with narcissistic personality disorder also have some of the same characteristics (an inability to care about anyone but themselves), it means that "evil" is all around us, even at work.
We used to cover a science song - in fact, we still do - called "Why Does The Sun Shine, " which is from a bunch of science - the question of science songs that came out when we were kids with Tom Glazer - and I don't know if you're familiar with this record.
And Gore says that really affected him, got him into this subject and, in fact, into science.
People think that autonomous driving is science fiction, but the fact is that the technology is already here.
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She also loves the science in wine and the fact that what she makes is something that brings happiness to others.
Well, the planet is indeed beautiful, but is anything else in that quote substantiated by anything resembling fact or sound science?
And in the science of optics, the fact that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum is taken for granted.
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On the related point: Of course newspapers and other breaking news media are going to sensationalize science and make errors of fact and emphasis.
Others respond that a plateau culture predating the migration is in fact compatible with the science.
In high school, I was not allowed to sign up for algebra nor in fact to take any science courses.
In fact, just like science labs on Earth, it has a number of complex instruments capable of testing the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
It is fascinating science and shares with neuroscience the fact that it is only in its early days, and so much of it remains to be discovered.
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