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The Boeing Company has developed a space capsule that holds seven astronauts and could be used to ferry passengers and supplies back and forth to the International Space Station. Will it be chosen to partially replace the space shuttle?

Australian researchers have developed a way to inject vaccines into the skin without using a needle. They have invented the Nanopatch, which uses tiny, dissolving micro-projections. Neat, and no more "ouch".

A newly discovered meteorite that impacted in southwestern Egypt a few thousand years ago, and produced what is being called the Kamil Crater, could mean that we are all at greater risk of getting hit by one.