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Alt-week 7.8.2012: Solar flares, trapping dark matter, and life-sized Lego trees

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

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This week we swing by some superhero news, look at how solar panels might shape up in the future, explore a Lego forest and see how to grab dark matter just using some household gold and strands of DNA. Not only that, we discover how the sun likes to celebrate the fourth of July with its own firework display. This is alt / week

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Rubber Chicken Launched into Space for Solar Storm Study

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It’s a bird, no it’s a plane, no, it’s a rubber chicken launched into space. Yes, you read that right – a rubber chicken was recently launched into space for a scientific study.

One rubber chicken has now boldly gone where no other rubber chicken has ever gone before – space. ...
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