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Breaking News! About an hour-and-a-half prior to the show SpaceX put the Falcon 1 into orbit.The Chinese got into orbit and performed a space walk. Another "Long Shot Future." The Chinese think that they can get the Emdrive operational. The adoption of cell phones in developing countries. In some places laying phone lines is prohibitively expensive. Cell towers are much cheaper.New way to control protein activity could lead to cancer therapies12-year-old William Yuan has made a revolutionary improvement in 3D solar cells.The Japanese are giving serious attention to the idea of a space elevator.

[First aired Sept 28, 2008]