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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches their project IKAROS. This is the first space station that draws power from the sun to help propel it through space.
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Boral Roofing, a roofing tile company, made available to the public roofing tiles that helps lower pollution in the air. This is accomplished through a chemical reaction between the coating on the tile and the nitrogen pollutants in the air which ends as a calcium nitrate product that is harmless to the environment.
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The space mission to Mars that will give us a better understanding of the universe, although small compared to the universe, was made possible with NASA's Curiosity Rover.
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First lab grown burger is cooked and eaten in London. The patty was made with stem cells from the muscle of a cow.
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New way of monitoring Blood sugar thanks to Google's Smart Contact Lens. The lens measures glucose levels from tears and transmits the level to a portable monitor.
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Car to car communication takes off! Vehicles can share real time information to each other, letting them know the speed , steering wheel position, and other information from surrounding vehicles.
