[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: dinosaurs, phages, algae, space development, interstellar travel

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• MacLean's notes the controversy surrounding claims of a remarkable find of fossils dating from the very moment, nearly, of the Chixculub impact 66 million years ago.


• Wired looks at how genetically manipulated phages can be used to treat infectious diseases untreatable by antibiotics.


• Universe Today notes the usefulness of algae in life-support systems for long-duration crewed missions.


• Evan Gough at Universe Today notes the need to come up with a system capable of ensuring the sustainable development of space.


• Corey S Powell writes at Discover about new technologies that could conceivably be used for rapid interstellar flight, and about stepping-stone targets worth noting as we work up to the stars.