We always want more from our electronics – faster, cheaper, more efficient. Computer memory is no exception, so fellow technophiles will be pleased to hear that engineers at the UK’s Cambridge University have managed to make memory cells from superconductive materials, by harnessing some magnetic and quantum trickery. Devices made this way will be smaller and faster than current technology, but vastly more sensitive to magnetic fields.

There has been some success recently with the growing of replacement organs. But growing is slow, especially when you consider organ replacement is best done sooner rather than later. Enter Gabor Forgacs, a biophysicist at the University of Missouri – he has developed a new bioprinting technique that could be used to create complex tissue structures such as veins far more efficiently than previous methods allowed.

There is now sufficient mobile apparatus at the New Mexico Spaceport to permit UA Aerospace Inc. to go through with their first planned suborbital launches in July. Moving to permanent structures will require the granting of a licence from the Federal Aviation Administration, but the Spaceport crews have plenty of other work to be getting on with in the meantime.

First, we had nano devices that *could* move. Now we have nano-devices that *can* move themselves by absorbing light. About as wide as a strand of DNA, apparently. The future is tiny.

What makes a body a planet? The consensus of astronomers, that’s what. Robert Britt would like to see an end to the arguments, and certainly doesn’t approve of nicknaming eccentric solar system objects after TV show characters. He may have a point.