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Nature 450, 456 (15 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450456a; Published online 14 November 2007

A better mousetrap

Mike Resnick1

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The appliance of science.

Men have always talked about building a better mousetrap, just the way they talk about a car that runs on water rather than gasoline, or nuclear fission that doesn't have any harmful by-products. But it wasn't until they reopened the Heisenberg Space Station out between Europa and Callisto that they realized they really needed a better mousetrap.