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Popular Mechanics May 2006 Mike Allen	How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Before we can debate national energy policy -- or even decide which petroleum substitutes might make sense for our personal vehicles -- we need to know how these things stack up in the real world. So we crunched the numbers on alternative fuels.
Chemistry World April 25, 2006 Jon Evans	DNA Sequencing Reaches the Space Age The smallest ever DNA sequencer, only 10cm in diameter, comprises a complex network of microscopic pumps, valves, heaters and electrophoresis channels, many of which were initially developed for use in a device to detect life on Mars.
Chemistry World April 13, 2006 Jon Evans	How Many OLEDs Does it Take to Replace a Light Bulb? Chemists and electrical engineers have combined fluorescence and phosphorescence to create the most efficient white organic light emitting diode (OLED) yet developed.
Scientific American May 2006 Tim Hornyak	Android Science Hiroshi Ishiguro makes perhaps the most humanlike robots around -- not particularly to serve as societal helpers but to tell us something about ourselves.
PC Magazine April 19, 2006	Smart Glass Electronics engineer John Wager has invented the world's first transparent integrated circuit, which could be the basis of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't displays.
PC Magazine April 19, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Thinking It Through The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI) allows users to control cursors and software applications by simply imagining the motions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006	Emcore Wins DARPA Contract for Very High Efficiency Solar Cell Program Engineers at the Emcore Corp. Photovoltaic division are developing advanced III-V multijunction solar cells for phase one of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's solar cell program.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 John Keller	Dropping Cost of Flash Memory Makes Solid-State Data Storage Affordable for More Designers The economies of scale that popular consumer electronics bring to solid-state Flash storage is providing a big opportunity for military and aerospace systems designers, who until now were dissuaded from using solid-state data storage by its relatively high cost.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 Ron Storm	Form-Fit-Function Replacement Power Supplies Breathe New Life Into Old Systems The redesign and manufacture of form-fit-function replacement power supplies present unique and significant opportunities to address any shortcomings in the original design, as well as a chance to improve system performance and reliability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 John Keller	The Future Has a Name: VITA 58 A new electronics packaging standard continues to take shape that has the potential to revolutionize military and aerospace systems like no standard ever has before.
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