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Technology Research News May 18, 2005	Nanoparticles Drive Display Researchers have developed a technology that has the potential to provide inexpensive, low-power, color electronic paper. The new scheme uses neutral rather than charged particles dispersed in liquid.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005	Thin Silver Sheet Makes Superlens Researchers have fashioned a superlens from a thin sheet of silver that resolves images as small as 60 nanometers using 365-nanometer light.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005	Catalyst Boosts Gasoline Fuel Cells Researchers have come up with a catalyst layer that can be put over a conventional anode to reform the fuel within the fuel cell. This allows hydrocarbons like gasoline to be used directly in fuel cells.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005	Virtual DNA Makes Material Researchers have advanced a computer simulation of a system designed to allow machines to self-assemble from vats of chemicals.
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford	Roving for Martian Designs Fifth-grade students from Texas take first place at the Third Annual Mars Rover Competition. Their rover was designed to furnish Mars with plants for oxygen and food for future human settlement.
Science News May 14, 2005	Amazing Paper Airplanes Two Web sites, one from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, offer paper airplane models of the space shuttle, F-16 Falcon, F/A-18 Hornet and other aircraft.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2005 Jack Uldrich	Risk in Carbon Nanotubes? Nanotech's "wonder" materials might also carry a substantial downside. Until the questions surrounding carbon nanotubes can be adequately answered, investors are encouraged to temper their enthusiasm
PC Magazine May 4, 2005 John R. Quain	Thinking Machines, Take Two Palm cofounder Jeff Hawkins has started a company, Numenta, to create computers that can think like humans and to inspire new work on computer intelligence.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Erico Guizzo	Zone of Silence Invented for an MIT thesis, Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming Our Personal Space, a gizmo defends against cellphone chatter.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Robert W. Lucky	Life Bits A fascinating experiment at Microsoft Corp.'s Media Presence Research Group, called MyLifeBits, is an attempt to record digitally everything that Gordon Bell reads, types, and hears, as well as a lot of what he sees. Is this a good idea?
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