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Popular Mechanics June 2007 Jeff Wise	Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out.
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Alex Hutchinson	How to Make Lightning: Wire + Rocket + Thundercloud Helping to isolate the effect of emissions, researchers have made the first direct measurements of lightning-related NOx, and it's one cool-looking experiment.
Smithsonian June 2007 Eric Jaffe	Saving Our Shipwrecks New technologies are aiding the search for one Civil War submarine, and the conservation of another.
Bank Technology News May 2007 Gregg Goth	Nanotech: Futuristic Keypad Piques Interest It won't be used for ATMs anytime soon, but recent research in nanotechnology shows that bank security may someday be extended to the molecular level.
Popular Mechanics	Lost - Season 3 Finale - Sci-Fi Fact vs. Fiction Writer, filmmaker, military adventurer and former dynamite wrangler Robert Young Pelton weighs in on the good, the bad and the fake from the mind-bending finale.
BusinessWeek June 4, 2007 Peter Burrows	Is This Really The Next Big Thing? Ultra-fast lasers have enormous promise - if more commercial uses can be unlocked.
Chemistry World May 24, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	BP Pulls Out of Carbon Capture Plans Due to slow governmental support, BP has ditched plans to build the world's first carbon capture and storage power plant in Scotland.
Smithsonian June 2007 Beth Jensen	Into the Fold Physicist Robert Lang has taken the ancient art of origami to new dimensions. Along with other scientists, Lang believes origami holds elegant solutions to problems in fields as diverse as automobile safety, space science, architecture, robotics, manufacturing and medicine.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Hospodor & Hospodor	Robo-girls Take On the World More than 10,000 teenagers from 344 teams traveled from 23 countries to the Georgia Dome for the 2007 FIRST Robotics World Championship. Seven all-girl teams made the run through the gauntlet of regional championships to be part of the Atlanta group.
Wired May 22, 2007 Adrienne So	Splashy Tech Spawns Water Rides Gnarly Enough for Coaster Snobs Here are six slides that will squeeze a scream out of even the most jaded coaster fans.
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