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China plays nice

China has announced its intention to train astronauts from other countries and share its expertise in space. The country has launched five crewed missions to date and plans to build a working space station by 2020. Cooperating with other nations might mean two international outposts orbiting Earth by the end of the decade.

World’s thinnest glass

A pane just one molecule thick is officially the world’s thinnest sheet of glass, according to the Guinness World Records. Scientists accidentally discovered the glass in 2012 when they noticed a layer of silicon and oxygen atoms on top of…

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