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  1. Remote Control Minds: Light flashes direct fruit fly behavior

    Researchers have exerted a little mind control over fruit flies by designing and installing genetic 'remote controls' within the insects' brains.

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    To a layman like me, it seems almost impossible that light reflected from a body that lies “much farther from the star than Pluto does from the sun” could be seen from Earth at a distance of 450 light years, when Pluto, only 6 light hours away, reflects so little light to Earth. Peter JemingSeattle, […]

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  3. Astronomy

    Stellar Question: Extrasolar planet or failed star?

    A tiny dot of light next to a young, sunlike star might be the long-sought image of an extrasolar planet.