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  Scientists hide gold with 3D "invisibility cloak" Reuters - Thu Mar 18, 9:16 PM

  LONDON (Reuters) - German scientists have created a three-dimensional "invisibility cloak" that can hide objects by bending light waves.

• Scientists with ties to industry more likely to write nice things about drugs The Canadian Press - Thu Mar 18, 8:48 PM

  TORONTO - Medical authors with ties to diabetes drug makers were more likely to publish favourable articles on a controversial diabetes medication than authors who had no such ties, a new study reveals.

• F-35 fighter makes first vertical landing Reuters - Thu Mar 18, 4:46 PM

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter aircraft landed vertically for the first time on Thursday, a bright spot in the Pentagon's priciest arms purchase program, troubled by cost increases and delays.

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  U.S.-Russian duo returns to Earth from space station Reuters - Thu Mar 18, 4:02 PM

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday.

• Harry Potter note: Researchers inch closer to developing cloak of invisibility The Canadian Press - Thu Mar 18, 3:16 PM

  WASHINGTON - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.

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