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Information Today September 17, 2007 Paula J. Hane	LexisNexis Adds TotalPatent to Its Suite of Solutions Against the backdrop of new technology patent infringement claims and Congress voting on changes to the U.S. patent law, LexisNexis introduced a new tool for patent professionals -- patent attorneys, information professionals, researchers, and engineers.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 James Oberg	Russians Prepare to Go to Mars Without Leaving the Ground In a battered brick warehouse in southeastern Moscow, scientists are preparing to confine a team of volunteers to a simulated Mars-bound spacecraft for more than a year. The simulation is really like a classic exercise in reliability engineering.
Popular Mechanics September 14, 2007 Jennifer Bogo	How the Deadliest Wind Farm Can Save the Birds: Green Machines Dealing with the alarming wildlife death rates in the already struggling field of U.S. wind energy.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero	Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Night Life as Seen From Space Scientists plan satellite to snap pictures of cities at night.
Chemistry World September 6, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Muscling in on Artificial Actuators Scientists in the US have developed artificial "micromuscles" capable of functions like gripping, walking and even swimming.
Chemistry World September 6, 2007 Tom Westgate	Probe Maps Individual Atoms in Semiconductor Troublesome clusters of dopant atoms have been 'seen' for the first time. Researchers have drawn up the first 3D maps of the individual atoms in a semiconductor.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 William Sweet	Portrait of a Mature Grid Operator With electricity deregulation, independent authorities have been established to manage regional power systems. But not all are created equal.
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	From UNIVAC to Google A computer in every kitchen? Decades of devotion to our machines are paying dividends, and using a search engine to figure out what's for dinner certainly beats learning binary.
Chemistry World September 5, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Beautiful Blooms From Nano-Weeds Chinese researchers have discovered a simple way to grow nanowire clusters and transform them into an array of tiny flower-like forms.
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