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World Service,23 Mar 2000,23 mins

First success for the Stand Up and Walk project

Science In Action

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A new technique could help some paralysed people to walk again – functional electrical stimulation (FES). Testing the quantum physics behind the proposition of Shrödinger's Cat. Interview with physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, who has won the Templeton Prize for advances in religion, includes his writings on how technology should be used to equalise opportunity. Exploring the solar system on bicycles in York, England, as part of Britain's National Science Week.

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