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National Defense November 2007 Breanne Wagner	All-Electric Ship Could Begin to Take Shape By 2012 As part of an ambitious technology plan for the Navy fleet of the future, the Office of Naval Research is exploring ways to power all-electric ships.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	U.S. Government Driving The Advance of Biometric Technologies Technology companies are rapidly developing biometric devices. But privacy policies, the tech backbone to effectively connect the scanners, and a market beyond the U.S. government, are lagging.
National Defense November 2007 Grace Jean	Remotely Sensing Soldiers' Distress With the advent of personal handheld electronics and the miniaturization of components, the ability to package medical sensors inside palm-sized devices has allowed remote welfare monitoring systems to become feasible in war zones.
Chemistry World October 18, 2007 Ned Stafford	Artificial Cornea Set for Clinical Trials Next Year A European research team has developed a polymer-based artificial cornea that could go into human trials as soon as next spring. If successful, the corneas could help the millions of blind people worldwide who are unable to get a transplant because of the dearth of human donors.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Neil Savage	Nanowire Silicon Solar Cell for Powering Small Circuits A new type of solar cell made from a nanometer-scale wire might one day provide an on-chip power source for nanoelectronic devices or run microscopic robots, say scientists.
Reactive Reports October 2007 David Bradley	An Economical Hydrogen Economy Researchers have now developed a catalyst that may be able to convert sunlight and water directly into hydrogen, in a process analogous to the photosynthesis of carbohydrates by plants using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water as the raw materials.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Nano-what? Low public awareness of nanotechnology is cause for concern.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Designers of Tomorrow Show Off Concept Cars Students from the College for Creative Studies and Univ. of Michigan created automotive forms for internship program.
Chemistry World October 17, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Shining a New Light on Nanowires Scientists have created tiny solar power cells using silicon nanowires 200 times thinner than a human hair. The cells could provide renewable energy for both nano- and large-scale applications.
Popular Mechanics October 17, 2007 Glenn Derene	Why Big Hard Drives Won't Just Be for Big Nerds: Buzzword Sure, they're taking place on a subatomic level that just won the Nobel Prize for physics. But overlooked innovations in hard-drive capacity are also pushing us into a new era of computing.
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