Giant laser creates an artificial star to clear the sky
The Very Large Telescope's new laser looks like something off the Death Star, but its powerful beam is used for the peaceful exploration of the galaxy
Russian meteor traced to Apollo asteroid family
The bounty of footage from dashboard-mounted cameras helped astronomers quickly calculate the orbit of the meteor and trace it to its home turf
Curiosity's spills add thrills to the Mars life hunts
An accidental chemical leak on board NASA's newest Martian rover has added another twist in the decades-long search for life on the Red Planet
Multilingual dictionary keeps humans in the loop
A new online dictionary launched this week uses concepts instead of words to avoid the typical garble of machine translation
Vulcan and Cerberus win popular Pluto moon-naming vote
A public vote to help name Pluto's two newest moons received a boost from William Shatner - but the International Astronomical Union has the final say
China takes steps to clean up 'cancer villages'
Having acknowledged the issue of cancer clusters around polluted water, the Chinese government is taking its first steps to control dangerous chemicals
Happy, snappy tweets gain the most Twitter followers
An analysis of half a million posts on Twitter has come up with some simple rules to boost your popularity on the site
Android smartphone to control satellite in orbit
A bold attempt to show that consumer electronics can cope with space radiation has lifted off - a satellite-controlling Google smartphone is now in orbit
The man who's crashing the techno-hype party
Evgeny Morozov does a good job of dispelling "big data" hype in To Save Everything, Click Here, but fails to explore the way we shape the tech we use
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