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No molecule left unchecked

No molecule left unchecked

New X-ray technology is about to make it a lot harder to plant a bomb on a plane

The undercover security officer, dressed in “civvies” – civilian clothing – dropped his bag onto the conveyor belt. The woman operating the X-ray machine, his colleague, paid him no attention. More…

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Mishaps in space

Mishaps in space

Unexpected and dangerous events can occur during spacewalks

Seeing double: How do 3D movies really work?

Seeing double: How do 3D movies really work?

And more importantly, do these 3D glasses make me look fat?

Getting out the vote in space

Getting out the vote in space

Astronauts have voted from space since 1997, but Sunita Williams and Kevin Ford didn’t yesterday

Romibo rolls on

Romibo rolls on

Aubrey Shick is doing everything she can to finish work on Romibo, the first do-it-yourself autism therapy robot

Capturing the invisible

Capturing the invisible

Astrophysicist Charles Hailey is building instruments to examine dark matter, black holes and more

The astronomical data explosion

An artist’s imagined rendition of the view from PH1, an exoplanet with four suns [Image credit: Dirk Terrell]

With the surge in telescopic space data, pro-am astronomy collaborations are making stellar discoveries

To hunt a hurricane

To hunt a hurricane

Innovations abound in hurricane forecasting and observation