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    This article says that the water drop is added to the back of the paper “as a wall against which the metal plume could push.” It seems more likely that the heat of the laser would even more violently vaporize the water, creating a small explosion that would drive the plane forward via the relatively […]

    By Science News
  2. Physics

    Paper planes get laser liftoff

    Powering aircraft by remote lasers works—at least on paper.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Earth

    Study links cancer to Vatican Radio

    Broadcast transmissions from a forest of antennas owned by Vatican Radio, outside Rome, appear to have boosted leukemia incidence in neighboring communities.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Health & Medicine

    Method could boost diabetes therapy

    Allowing insulin-producing islets to grow in close contact with each other during cell culture may increase the chance of successful transplant into diabetic people.