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Week in science: SpaceX to the final frontier

The SpaceX launch topped the week's science news. Wondering what else was hot …

SpaceX Dragon reaches orbit atop a Falcon with a fiery tail: A milestone in commercial space aviation was reached as SpaceX's Dragon spaceship made it to low Earth orbit and returned safely to Earth.

Cloudy with a chance of leaves: reducing climate uncertainty: What do leaves have in common with clouds? Both of them represent climate feedbacks that could significantly alter the trajectory of future warming.

Most undescribed plant species have been collected, just not analyzed: Most undescribed plant species have already been collected and are in herbaria, waiting to be discovered.

This is your brain undergoing cognitive dissonance: Researchers demonstrate that, once again, we adjust our beliefs to reflect our past actions, and claim to have spotted the neural activity that accompanies this adjustment.

Bacteria evolve a way to share electrons: Bacteria forced to live on a food that they can't properly digest have evolved the ability to directly transfer electrons between different species.

Review: Mendeley makes managing research more fun: Staying on top of current literature is a big part of being a scientist, but everyone knows filing is tedious. Mendeley is here to help with that, with a multiplatform approach that includes the Web, your desktop, and even your iOS device. But is it any good? Ars takes a look.

How to probe the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star: Researchers catch a glimpse of the atmosphere of an exoplanet when it passes in front of its host star.

Mole rats evolved to cope with oxygen-poor tunnels: Subterranean mole rats have evolved to express more oxygen-carrying proteins to help them survive oxygen levels in their burrows that are as little as one-third of those on the surface.

Diseases thrive where biodiversity is low: Research shows that decreasing biodiversity may lead to increases in the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases.

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