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CIO January 1, 2003 Susannah Patton	Diamonds (And Grandma) Are Forever Looking for a novel way to spend eternity? Consider LifeGem, a Chicago company that will turn your ashes into diamonds.
CIO January 1, 2003 Susannah Patton	Bye-Bye Batteries Imagine chatting on your cell phone for months at a time without recharging it. Or taking a laptop on a weeklong business trip without a battery or power cord. That's the goal of scientists around the world working to perfect tiny fuel cells using microtechnology engineering.
CIO January 1, 2003 Mindy Blodgett	Thin Is In Displays for computers and handheld devices keep getting lighter and thinner, and now two new technologies -- OLEDs and E Ink -- promise to take this trend to the next level in 2003.
CIO January 1, 2003 Julie Hanson	The Next Little Thing Perhaps the Next Big Thing on the horizon, nanotechnology is the science of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	DNA prefers diamond DNA is particularly useful for sensing pathogens like those used in biological weapons. The trick to making sensors that can be used in the field may involve attaching strands of DNA to a thin film of diamond, preparing sensors to withstand the rigors of the real world.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Material soaks up the sun The semiconductor indium nitride got a raw deal a few decades back when it was misclassified as a mediocre photovoltaic. It turns out the stuff could be a champ at changing sunlight into electricity. If all goes according to plan, indium nitride will make for more efficient solar cells.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Eric Smalley	Design links quantum bits Realizing the potential of phenomenally fast quantum computers means having to link thousands of quantum bits, which are the transistors of such computers. So far researchers have been able to connect only a few. A scheme for linking many tiny superconducting loops may pull it all together.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Eric Smalley	Microscopic mix strengthens magnet Magnets are usually an either-or proposition. They either generate a strong magnetic field or they hold up well in the presence of external magnetic fields. A method that mixes the two types of magnets at the nanoscale could pave the way for smaller electric motors and generators.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Laser pulses could speed memory Researchers from the Research Institute for Materials in the Netherlands and Siemens AG in Germany have found a way to switch a magnetic bit more quickly. The potential payoff is faster computer memory.
Bio-IT World December 10, 2002 Mark Hall	Grids: When Concepts Collide Within just a few years, grid computing has gone from being a subject discussed by only experts in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and networking to one that has captured the imagination of an increasingly large percentage of the computing public.
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