this week in the future

UV phasers, battlefield-based cryogenic tech, computerized cat brains and space fish on Jupiter's moon? Believe it, baby. The future is yours, and we've rounded it up for you in high style once again with This Week in The Future

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We're all about the future here at PopSci; we put the pieces together and deliver the news and nuggets you need to know to stay on top of where this world (and universe, and beyond) is headed. This week, the future's looking like quite the wild party--water from space, libidinous rats, and transforming UAVs. What's not to love?

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The future continued to unfold before us this week, and it's been quite a week indeed.

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What a week. A robot pathologist finds a victorious Japanese solar race cars in a cadaver. Cancer-immune mole rats smoke with impunity, while genetically engineered flowers scrub the air of pollutants. Sign me up for this future.

Some of our favorite stories this week:

• A Japanese team wins the annual Global Green Challenge, crossing Australia in their solar car over four days

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China engineers the world's smartest rat? The mayor of Moscow wants to control the weather? Skiing robots?. What a week.

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It's that time again--our illustrated roundup of the future this week. Robots were in the news quite a bit (meaning it was a good week): robots made of shapeless goo, robots that eat biomaterials for energy and robots that could have saved soldiers' lives in Iraq.

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The littlest gold miners, the tidiest bees, and the least fun Wii game ever. Welcome to this week's Future.

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Cyborg monkeys surf on OLED pickles. Ships emit slime, and our own Mikey Sklar's Benz runs on vegetable oil. And a knife-wielding, thought-controlled robot still can't conquer Japan. This is the Future.

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The Future--what a place. A time more than a place, perhaps, but here at PopSci, a tangible thing. To wit: our future world where we'll sniff stem cells, control cyborg beetles and film HD video--all in space. Here, a glimpse of said future, as illustrated by some of the best stories of the week.

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