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Popular Mechanics July 11, 2007 Nick Mokey	DIY Rally 2007 Runners-Up, Part 5: Beaten by the Electric-Powered Dragster It was tough to pick the best, wildest, most creative reader projects of the year, but Robert Lange's electric-powered dragster blew us away. Here are four other reader projects that harness electricity to put things into motion.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Melissa Wagenberg Lasher	The Propeller Trike: DIY Rally 2007, Part 3 Damon Vander Lind and some fellow MIT students combined aircraft-supply tubing and salvaged bike parts into a recumbent trike. The result is a soothingly quiet, human-powered, 20-mph creation.
Chemistry World July 10, 2007 Tom Westgate	Attosyringe Shows Potential Electrochemists have given hope to biologists who want to inject precise and tiny volumes of fluids into living cells. They have developed a syringe that delivers attolitre volumes.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Michael Dumiak	A Telescope Takes Flight A landmark moment in the exploration of the deep cosmos occurred recently. A powerful flying telescope, SOFIA, made its first checkout flights, having survived a bureaucratic near-death experience only a year ago.
Chemistry World July 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Molecular Beanpoles Wrapped up Chemists have invented an elegant way of insulating a molecular wire with a double helix wrapper.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 John Voelcker	Hey, Soccer Moms: Drive These SUVs! Challenge X shows that teams of college students really can make environmentally friendly sport utility vehicles that may appeal to everyday consumers
Fast Company July 1, 2007 Evan West	These Robots Play Fetch E-commerce is a wonderful thing, but for the warehouse it can be a nightmare. Enter the robots. Staples discovers that a team of mechanical super-retrievers -- in day-glo orange -- can keep a warehouse humming.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Prevelakis & Spinellis	The Athens Affair How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Carolyn Meinel	For Love of a Gun The recent history of railgun research is a cautionary tale about military R&D. It's an enterprise where the best technology doesn't always win, and even when it does, it may very well have cost far more to field than it should have.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Federici et al.	T-Rays vs. Terrorists Terahertz radiation lets security screeners find bombs and weapons wherever they're hidden.
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