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Tech of the week: water-powered jetpacks

By Diana Burk | February 16, 2011

WHO: After more than 10 years of design work, Canadian inventor Raymond Li has developed the first marketable water-powered jetpack, the JetLev. WHAT: The JetLev is a personal jetpack that can lift the pilot up to 30 feet in the air and fly forward at 22 mph.

Mosquito carries suitable vector for transmission of malaria

By Diana Burk | February 16, 2011

Dr. Michelle Riehle and colleagues from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, recently have discovered a new type of mosquito in Burkina Faso.

A drought of devastating proportions

By Diana Burk | February 16, 2011

The Amazon rainforest drought of 2005 had such devastating effects on the habitat that scientists believed it was a "once in a century" event.

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Tech of the week: water-powered jetpacks

Mosquito carries suitable vector for transmission of malaria

A drought of devastating proportions

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