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Chemistry World November 26, 2007 Tom Westgate	Scientists Win Cash to Develop Plastic x-Ray Detectors UK scientists have shown for the first time that polymers could compete with silicon for detecting x-ray radiation. Now, a funding boost gives the researchers the chance to work with industry and bring the technology closer to market.
Popular Mechanics November 21, 2007 Logan Ward	MIT Team Turns Auto Parts Into Green Power for Remote Regions A group of recent graduates and grad students from MIT is reconfiguring parts from old cars to create a simple turbine that runs on the heat of the sun instead of the oil drum.
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Frank Washburn	Future Watch: The Mind-Reading Computer Engineers are developing a computer interface that adapts to a user's changing mental state.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Teeny Tiny Tunes Researchers create single carbon nanotube that operates as a fully functional radio.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale	Purdue Researchers Demonstrate New Chip-Cooling Technology Researchers are taking a new approach with a new technology that uses tiny ionic wind engines that they say might dramatically improve computer chip cooling-a constant challenge for military and commercial electronics designers.
Popular Mechanics November 16, 2007 Erik Sofge	Top 5 Next-Gen Cop Car Gadgets Carbon Motors -- started by ex-Ford executives -- wants to deliver a high-performance, fully integrated patrol vehicle for roughly the same price as the retrofitted models currently on the road.
Popular Mechanics November 15, 2007 Thomas D. Jones	High-Wire DIY Can Save the Space Station: Resident Astronaut The space station is giving us a graduate-level course in how people and machines can survive in space for the long term.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 John Voelcker	Autonomous Vehicles Complete DARPA Urban Challenge Six of 11 autonomous vehicles finish 90-kilometer course with no major accidents.
Chemistry World November 15, 2007 Tom Westgate	Computing Goes Into Solution South Korean scientists have developed the first soluble molecular logic gates - one step along the way to designing molecular computers and biological lab-on-a-chip devices.
Popular Mechanics November 15, 2007 Logan Ward	Laser-Based Gadget Finds the Bends for Astronauts, Navy Seals A researcher hopes to build a laptop-size device to detect the onset of decompression sickness, or the bends, on submarines, the International Space Station and dive boats.
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