Alt-week 5.16.13: bug eyes, robo-cops and fake flowers

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

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If we're to find a common thread in this week's collection of stories, it'd be nature's guiding hand. How it inspires science, how we seek to imitate it, and how unnatural the future of policing could be. This is alt-week,

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Alt-week 5.11.13: drones, more drones and dual perspective advertising

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

Altweek 51113 drones, more drones and dual perspective advertising

There was a time when young, engineering minds were content with putting together radio controlled vehicles for leisurely amusement. Now, they're using their clever brains to make UAVs fly longer and land anywhere. At least we know who to blame when robopocalypse finally rolls around. This is alt-week.

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Alt-week 5.4.13: Atacama's mystery skeleton, move to Mars, and lights out for Herschel

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

Altweek 5413 Atacama's mystery skeleton, move to Mars, and lights out for Herschel

Well, here we are. It's happening. We're officially talking about setting up a human colony on Mars. Not only is this very real, it's something you can be part of. You don't have to leave the planet to get your extra-terrestrial fix though, as our two other stories demonstrate. This is alt-week.

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Alt-week 4.27.13: stargazing, antimatter and a robot turtle

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days.

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As a youngster, you may have been told -- and quite rightly so -- not to stare directly at the sun. This creates a dillema. It's the center of our solar system, but how are we to ever gaze upon it with our own eyes for more than a few fleeting seconds? Don't worry, NASA has that comprehensively covered. This is alt-week.

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Alt-week 4.7.13: Skylab II, reading your dreams and addiction fighting lasers

Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.

Altweek 4713 Skylab II, reading your dreams and addiction fighting lasers

Evolution, devolution, review-lution. Okay, so we made that last one up. But if they ever do invent a machine that can re-view your dreams in full HD, we're betting that's what they'll be calling it. The even better news is that that's possibly not as crazy as it sounds as we learn this week. What week? Why, alt-week of course.

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