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Top science headlines of the week.

What is this Super 8 movie?

Okay, so maybe the "Tvor" isn’t actually a "pet lamp" but it does have the ability to seek out dark areas of a room and point light in that direction, automatically.

With input from scientists around the world, American and European scientists working on the potential next new mission to the Jupiter system have articulated their joint vision for the Europa Jupiter System Mission.

An ambitious hunt by Johns Hopkins scientists for actively "jumping genes" in humans has yielded compelling new evidence that the genome, anything but static, contains numerous pesky mobile elements that may help to explain why people have such a variety of physical traits and disease risks.

Tel Aviv University astronomers identify the epoch of the first fast growth of black holes.

A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover’s-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun.

Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn’s second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon’s surface, revealing a history of tectonic rumbling. The images are among the highest-resolution views ever obtained of Rhea.

Who wants to go planet hunting? Nano Patents and Innovations put up a blog post about how you can discover your very own planet!

What is the future of web browsing? Is it hands-free? As gaming moves more and more towards hands-free control, the question remains: Has web browsing been left in the dust? Nope!