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08 Macro for your smartphone
10 Things to measure other things
12 Obsessed endures
14 Ant farms. No, really.
16 Camping gear that packs down.
18 The Note9 does tricks.
20 Smaller engine... bigger power?
22 PCs in your pocket
24 Oversight: The history of small.

Insight
Important stu for futurists

27 Blue light at night can actually
send you blind. Maybe.
28 Squishly spiderbot surgeons could
save you from stroke, one day.
34 A smarter telescope, built for
citizen science.

Features
Read, think, read some more

40 Flying economy sucks... forever?
50 Two bugs, way way WAY up close.

Rethink
Take a second look

58 Why care about the ginger emoji?
68 Your microbiome, mapped.
70 Weird bone caves!
71 The dust mites hide!
Spores to power future motors!
72 From the Archives: We praise
Columbia’s test flight.
78 Retro Invention: Tiny cars!

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Bonus Extra Material!

03 Our Editor Rants
06 The Big Picture
80 Lab Rats!
82 Next Issue

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