Cambridge: Stephen Hawking on 'road to recovery'

Cambridge University says physicist Stephen Hawking is still hospitalized but recovering from a chest infection.

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Stephen Hawking to retire from prestigious post

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space.

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Hawking: Unintelligent life is likely on other planets

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says.

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Stephen Hawking Set to Fly Weightless

A jet carrying astrophysicist Stephen Hawking took off Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center on a flight to simulate zero gravity and make Hawking the first disabled person to experience weightlessness.

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Hawking to Make Zero Gravity Flight

Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who authored the best-selling book, "A Brief History of Time," soon will experience a brief history with weightlessness.

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Stephen Hawking Reflects on Life & Fame

Stephen Hawking showed off his sense of humor Monday, telling an Israeli TV interviewer that "the only advantage of my disability is that I do not get put on a lot of boring committees."

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Stephen Hawking Reportedly to Divorce

Renowned astrophysicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce, according to media reports Friday. British newspapers reported he and his wife, Elaine, have lodged divorce papers at Cambridge County Court.

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Stephen Hawking Seeks Assistant

Wanted: bright graduate student to assist world-famous scientist. International travel, developing computer systems and dealing with the press required. Renowned astrophysicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking has announced he is looking for a graduate student to work for him one to two years.

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Stephen Hawking Warns About Global Warming

Stephen Hawking expressed concern about global warming Wednesday even as he charmed and provoked a group of Chinese students.

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Hawking Recalls Pope's Views on Research

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that Pope John Paul II tried to discourage him and other scientists attending a cosmology conference at the Vatican from trying to figure out how the universe began.

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Hawking: Humans Must Spread Out in Space

The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.

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The British physisist spoke out after Republican politicians lambasted the NHS as "evil" in their effort to stop President Barack Obama's reforms of US health care which will widen availability of treatment but at a cost to higher earners who will pay higher insurance premiums.

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The physicist Stephen Hawking is defending Britain's National Health Service after an editorial in Investor's Business Daily said Mr. Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K.," where the health service would have deemed his life "essentially worthless."

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Stephen Hawking was among the recipients at the White House today when President Barack Obama presented the National Medal of Freedom to 16 "agents of change." Relatively few scientists win this medal, the highest civilian honor awarded in the U.S., particularly when the scie …

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After getting hijacked by another wingnut editorial taking liberties with the truth, our old friend Stephen Hawking had to set the record straight.

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Professor Stephen Hawking has spoken out in defence of the NHS after high-level U.S. politicians have branded the National Health Service 'evil' and 'Orwellian'.

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So Barack Obama is facing the fight of his life (another one) as he attempts to reform the US healthcare system. The "special interests" – doctors, healthcare companies – don't like it. The "birthers" – crazy types who hope to prove he is not American – smell blood.

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There are, I think, two essential truths in international health policy. No-one sees fit to copy the National Health Service and no-one sees fit to copy the American system.

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Of course, Stephen Hawking is and always has been British – having lived and worked and been taken care of by this system.

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama will next month award the highest US civilian honour to 16 "agents of change" including Desmond Tutu, Stephen Hawking and Muhammad Yunus, the White House said today.

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Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits.

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Physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of "A Brief History of Time" who is almost completely paralyzed by motor neurone disease, has been urgently admitted to hospital, Cambridge University said on Monday.

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SCIENCE NEWS Share Blog Subscribe Print Email Bookmark Stephen Hawking admitted to hospital By Luke BakerPosted 2009/04/20 at 6:05 pm EDT

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LONDON (AP) -- Stephen Hawking, the British mathematician and physicist famed for his work on black holes, was rushed to a hospital Monday and was seriously ill, Cambridge University said.

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Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most famous scientists, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University said today. Professor Hawking, who works at the university, was undergoing tests at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

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Physicist Stephen Hawking is "very ill" and has been hospitalized in Cambridge England according to the University of Cambridge.

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Professor Stephen Hawking, Britain's most famous scientist, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University said today.

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Stephen Hawking barely needs an introduction, but his recent direction does. He is packaging the universe for the younger generation. With his daughter Lucy Hawking, he has branched out into writing children's books.

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Hawking will join the facility next year Physicist Stephen Hawking is set to become the first distinguished research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, a top Canadian scientific trust looking to expand its roster of brilliant scientists.

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Professor Stephen Hawking talking about the LHC (Large Hydron Collider ) and it's potential of discovering the Higgs Boson, or what is commonly referred to as the 'God Particle'.

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Canada's profile in the international physics community got a huge boost today as renowned "superstar" cosmologist Stephen Hawking accepted a research post at the country's "crown jewel" of theoretical physics study.

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Cosmologist Stephen Hawking has accepted a research post with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will next year retire as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Isaac Newton, the university said on Thursday.

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Retiring to Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

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A bold paper which has highly impressed some of the world's top physicists and been published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters, seems set to change the way we think about the nature of time and its relationship to motion and classical and quantum mechanics.

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In the 1960s the space race created a fascination with science and great technological advances. To find alien life we need to take back up that mantle, says astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, and send people further into space.

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