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happy mutants How much energy can dust-sized computers harvest from sun and motion, and how much work can they do with it? Cory Doctorow

Science Your brain tissue is 50% more plastic than in 2016 Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

nanotechnology Study discovers how butterfly wings repel the brutal impact of raindrops Clive Thompson

Delightful Creatures Here are the chemistry stories that delighted the editors of Chemical and Engineering News this year Mark Frauenfelder

Science The scientific secrets inside a single grain of moon dust David Pescovitz

Science Artificial tongue's nanoscale "tastebuds" can sort real whisky from counterfeits more than 99% of the time Cory Doctorow

water New technology sucks water out of thin air Séamus Bellamy

Science Watch this nanolab print liquid 3D structures Andrea James

Technology New ultra-high resolution printer makes colors from nanostructures David Pescovitz

medicine Thought-controlled nanorobots in your body David Pescovitz

Engineering Scientists built the world's smallest nano-engine David Pescovitz

Science Nanotechnology coming of age (finally)? David Pescovitz

Comic Books Bloodshoot: fun thriller comic book written by Duane Swierczynski Mark Frauenfelder