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Bio-IT World July 2005 Stan Schwartz	Trends in Digital Bioscience Imaging The author, a Nikon VP, reviews the improvements in digital imaging that have been achieved over the last 30 years. A new set of research tools is aimed at solving the bottlenecks commonly found in the drug discovery laboratory.
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Bradley Carl Edwards	A Hoist to the Heavens A space elevator could be the biggest thing to happen since the Stone Age, but can we build one? Many aspects are already being imagined and considered by forward-thinking engineers.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2005 John Teresko	Smarter Solutions: Industrial Machinery/Farm Equipment The evolution of machine intelligence has roots in several major breakthroughs.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Fingernails store data Researchers from the University of Tokushima and Hokkaido University have demonstrated that it is possible to read data written into a human fingernail using a laser. The data could be later read for security purposes. The project timeline is 3 years.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 Eric Smalley	Quantum crypto scheme doubly fast Researchers have found a way to double the speed of information transfer over quantum cryptography systems.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005	System brightens dark video Researchers have devised a way to improve under-exposed videos.
Technology Research News July 27, 2005	Micro fuel cell packs power Researchers have built a propane-driven fuel cell that's not much bigger than a watch battery, but lasts much longer.
InternetNews July 25, 2005 David Needle	Intel's Arizona Plans Are FABulous Intel is sinking $3 billion into a new chip manufacturing plant, focused on the company's most cutting edge 45 nanometer process technology for future computing platforms. The new technology lowers the cost of chip production.
Science News July 23, 2005 Ivars Peterson	Paper Bags and Tricky Folds Because robots must fold along rigid lines, it takes some ingenuity to help them fold standard paper bags.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Phasebridge gets DARPA contract for photonic radio program Under the new contract, Phasebridge Inc. will optimize the implementation of QPSK modulation as it pertains to ultra-wideband RF photonic heterodyne frequency synthesis and RF photonic frequency conversion.
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