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1. Discovering the origin of Darwin's ills
   Medical science of the time was neither able to diagnose the cause of his problems nor to help much with the symptoms, writes
2. Seeing the light - without wires
   IT SOUNDS LIKE something out of science fiction, but researchers in the US have developed a “solar” implant for the eye. While there’s a way to go yet, the hope is that it might eventually help people with vision loss due to certain forms of degeneration of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.
3. Far from the madding crowd
   Advanced mathematical models are used to predict the behaviour of large gatherings of people, making crowd movements and group mentalities more predictable than you might think, writes