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The Army's Remote-Controlled Beetle 
  
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Publisher: Technology Review
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This article from Technology Review discusses the new technology of controlling insects using cybernetic implants. It includes several pictures of a beetle with implanted equipment…
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/411814/the-armys-remote-controlled-be...
Hoverflies: Nature's Shape Shifters 
  
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This article from the University of Oxford covers the research analyzing the wings of a hoverfly in flight. It includes a video of the hoverfly and still images of the wings.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/090514.html
Tinker, Tailor, Robot, Fly 
  
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This article from Harvard Magazine describes the development of the robotic fly. It discusses the history of the research and possible future applications of the technology.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/01/tinker-tailor-robot-fly
Maple Seeds and Animals Exploit the Same Trick to Fly 
  
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This article from Caltech describes how maple seeds spin as they fall to the ground. It also goes into the applications behind the research and includes a link to a video of the air…
https://www.caltech.edu/news/maple-seeds-and-animals-exploit-same-trick-...
Invention at Play 
  
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Explore the playful side of invention and the inventive side of play in Invention at Play, produced at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. This is a…
http://invention.si.edu/tags/invention-play
Through a lens, darkly 
  
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This PhysicsCentral article explains the basics of metamaterials, from their prediction to their recent construction. The article includes a section on research with several helpful…
http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/lens.cfm
Beginner's Guide to Propulsion 
  
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This site from the NASA Glenn Research Center offers a brief introduction to propulsion with many links to explore related concepts in depth. Topics include Newton's laws, thrust,…
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bgp.html
A Nanotube Space Elevator 
  
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In this short video, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes the amazing tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and how they might be used to construct a space…
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/oer08.sci.engin.systems.elevato...
Spinning Carbon Nanotubes Spawns New Wireless Applications 
  
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This news article from the University of Cincinnati describes how long carbon nanotubes grown in its labs are spun into threads, and how these threads can function as an antenna.…
http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=9743
APOD: An Ion Drive for Deep Space 1 
  
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This Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) image shows a laboratory test of the ion drive engine used to propel the Deep Space 1 exploratory probe across the solar system in 1998. The…
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030720.html
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