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Ground-to-Air Laser Power System Keeps a Plane Aloft for Two Straight Days
From LaserMotive, the winner of NASA's Space Elevator competition
A New Look at the Living Habits of Bacteria Could Help Beat Antibiotic Resistance
The biofilms where bacteria congregate are like little apartment buildings
Strategies for a Changing Planet: If All Else Fails…
When it's 115 degrees in March, it might take a Hail Mary of a solution to help us
Strategies for a Changing Planet: Water
The amount of water on Earth is fixed, but everything else is changing fast
Strategies for a Changing Planet: Farming
Wheat, rice and corn provide 60 percent of the world's calories -- here's how to prepare them for the future
Strategies for a Changing Planet: Food
It won't be easy, but there are ways to make the food production math add up
Kicking Off the 2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup With Student-Made Kinect Projects
Duck Hunt for stroke victims, a shopping cart that follows you around, a new and improved way to learn sign language, and more from Microsoft's student ideas competition
New Studies Say No, Life Can’t Live on Arsenic Alone
Last year's finding that "alien" Californian bacteria thrive on arsenic instead of phosphorus contradicted in new papers
Strategies for a Changing Planet: Shelter
Climate change will drive people to urban areas, and smarter cities will be needed to shelter them
Strategies for a Changing Planet: Awareness
We're on a collision course with extreme weather. It's time to acknowledge that, and to prepare