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China has had a telescope on the moon for the past two years

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The robotic telescope, mounted on the Chang'e 3 lander, is the first of its kind and provides unique views of the night sky that aren't possible from Earth

Physics adventures down the superfluid supersonic black hole

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What happens to the information swallowed by black holes? Why is the universe's expansion speeding up? Find out by making a frozen universe in the lab

Watch the first crewed flight of the world’s first “flying car”

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Billed as the future of urban personal transport by its makers, the Volocopter is easy to fly and could take off vertically from in front of your house

Report shows how to say goodbye to harmful algal blooms

Harmful algal blooms dangerous to human health and the Lake Erie ecosystem—such as the one that shut down Toledo's water supply for two days in 2014—could become a problem of the past.

Longtime GM design chief Ed Welburn to retire after 44 years

Ed Welburn, General Motors' longtime head of automotive design and the first African-American to lead global design for any automaker, is retiring after 44 years with the company.

Turkey passes long-awaited data protection law

A long-awaited new data protection law came into force in Turkey on Thursday, just days after it emerged that private details about some 50 million citizens had been leaked.

Space station getting inflatable room, a cosmic first

Forget blowup air mattresses. Space station astronauts are getting their first inflatable room.

Dynamic model helps understand healthy lakes to heal sick ones

Development of a dynamic model for microbial populations in healthy lakes could help scientists understand what's wrong with sick lakes, prescribe cures and predict what may happen as environmental conditions change. Those are among the benefits expected from an ambitious project to model the interactions of some 18,000 species in a well-studied Wisconsin lake.