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1. This rocket’s launch — and safe return to earth — could open the door to space tourism.
By Nathaniel Scharping in Discover
2. Doctors are 3D-printing a patient’s brain to practice surgery before they perform it.
By Dan Mangan at CNBC
3. The next leap in clean energy? Algae-power.
By Cléa Desjardins at Concordia University
4. How data-mining led to a diabetes breakthrough.
By Jessica Leber in Co.Exist
5. The police took more stuff from people than burglars did last year.
By Christopher Ingraham in the Washington Post
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