1. Does the Supreme Court need a code of conduct?
By Lincoln Caplan in the New Yorker
2. Could the genes of real-life superheroes help find new pain drugs?
By Caroline Chen in Bloomberg Business
3. Here’s how scientists made solar power 30 percent more efficient.
By Iqbal Pittalwala at University of California Riverside
4. With privatized space travel, returning to the moon just got a lot cheaper.
By Elizabeth Howell in Space.com
5. Micropayments for news stories might be making a comeback.
By Matt Carroll in MediaShift

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