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Noted British physicist Stephen Hawking is “very ill” and has been hospitalized in Cambridge, England with what appears to be a chest infection, but no diagnosis has been given publicly. Hawking has motor neurone disease and is nearly completely paralyzed. Reuters

CNN video Stephen Hawking interview Stephen Hawking, scientist and author of A Brief History of Time, tells an interviewer of his fears for the human race, saying that if we can manage our problems well enough to get through the next two centuries, the species will survive. The video includes images from his 2007 zero gravity flight, where he says how wonderful it is to be out of a wheelchair for the first time in 40 years.