A man confined to a wheelchair five years ago is able to walk again after scientists reconnected his brain and legs.

A man confined to a wheelchair five years ago is able to walk again after scientists reconnected his brain and legs.

THERE are unfortunately far too many times when it is easier to despair of humankind, and our seemingly endless capacity to destroy what is good and beautiful; to plumb new depths of depravity; indeed to threaten our very existence as a species by refusing to act on global warming.