Brief: This Week In Science – 10th to 16th September 2016
Energy
Scotland unveiled a turbine for the world's first large scale tidal energy farm.
Source: The Guardian
Neuroscience
Brain-Machine interface enables monkeys to type a passage from Shakespeare.
Source: Factor
Space
ESA's Gaia spacecraft tool its first sky...
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