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Reinvention and flying cars: Your weekly reading list

Reinvention and flying cars: Your weekly reading list

This week, follow the reincarnating NASA aircraft, meet the algae-infused salamanders and travel in style with some flying cars.
by William Lager

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A tiny pill monitors vital signs from deep inside the body

A tiny pill monitors vital signs from deep inside the body

It's the latest in a small but growing group of devices that soldiers, athletes, astronauts and colonoscopy patients have gulped to collect information from odd recesses of the body.
by Rae Ellen Bichell

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Asteroid monitors, fusion reactors and dunes: Your weekly reading list

Asteroid monitors, fusion reactors and dunes: Your weekly reading list

This week, meet the sky-watchers scanning space for near-Earth objects; meet marine biologist Sylvia Earle; and learn about the Wendelstein 7-X, a newly finished fusion reactor.
by William Lager

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Earth selfie: A clear view from Morocco to Iran

Earth selfie: A clear view from Morocco to Iran

This week's Earth selfie centers on Africa, while southern Europe peeks out from under heavy cloud cover.
by William Lager

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Your cat doesn't really want to kill you

Your cat doesn't really want to kill you

Reports about how your cat "may want to kill you" have been circulating, but anthropologist Barbara J. King explains the misunderstanding behind the claims.
by Barbara J. King

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How we leave the atmosphere: Your weekend reading list

How we leave the atmosphere: Your weekend reading list

This week: The race to carry astronauts into space by 2017, the missile test of the USS Kentucky, and the stumbles of rocket science.
by William Lager

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Astronomers spot most distant object so far in solar system

Astronomers spot most distant object so far in solar system

A random search has turned up a dwarf planet orbiting roughly 10 billion miles away. The far-off world is tiny, and probably very, very cold.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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