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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Experimental VME Backplane Databus Moves Data at 1 Gigabit Per Second Computer scientists are on the verge of boosting VME backplane databus speeds to as fast as 1 gigabit per second, or to enable a larger number of backplane slots to function at the same speed without incurring any substantial cost penalty.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Gurnett & Adams	Taming the Gallium Arsenide Dicing Process A 2-inch gallium nitride wafer puts a thin film of GaN on a diamond base. One application: high-power, high-frequency power amplifiers.
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Noah Shachtman	Hypersonic Cruise Missile: America's New Global Strike Weapon The mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon's bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Molecular Light Switch Vincenzo Balzani's latest chemical nano invention is a molecular scale solar power source, extension cable, and "drain" connection that functions as a signal processor that works in a chemical solution instead of on a printed circuit board.
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Blood, Light, and Water Two molecules that occur naturally in blood have been engineered by scientists to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Plastic Shape Shifter Temperature-controlled triple-shaped plastics that can change shape from one form to another, then another, have been developed by researchers.
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Rubber Suits You Sir Military personnel, chemical workers, and others could benefit from a new synthetic rubber material tailored with liquid crystals.
Chemistry World December 15, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Electronics go on a Bender The prospect of low-cost, efficient electronic circuits being applied to flexible substrates has moved a step closer with two pieces of research reported by US scientists.
Popular Mechanics January 2007 Alex Hutchinson	10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007 Bendable concrete... Phase-change random access memory (PRAM)... Printed solar panels... Passport hacking... Vehicle infrastructure integration... Body area network... Plasma arc gasification... Video on the net (VoN)... etc.
Chemistry World December 14, 2006 Jessica Ebert	Nanotube Photoconductors Japanese researchers report the construction of a molecule that self-assembles into nano-sized tubes which generate a current when irradiated. The nanotubes could serve as building blocks for future nanoscale photovoltaics, electronics, and photo-detectors.
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