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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!

The Other Stuf

Bonus Extra Material!

03 Our Editor Rants

06 The Big Picture

80 Lab Rats!

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