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Popular Mechanics February 2008	New Tech to Protect Spacecraft from Space Junk NASA scientists seeking other solutions to their current time-consuming processes of searching for small holes in spacecraft skin are focusing on new wireless technologies that can find tiny leaks by tracking vibrations across a spacecraft's metal skin.
Popular Mechanics February 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Plasma Plaything Warms Up for Sun-Level Work on Fusion Fusion reactors -- the near-mythic energy sources that have been on the horizon for half a century -- may be coming one step closer.
Popular Mechanics January 8, 2008 Logan Ward	Super Soaker Inventor Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half The independent inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun says he can achieve a solar energy conversion efficiency rate that tops 60% with a new solid-state heat engine. It represents a breakthrough new way to turn heat into power.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Wilson & Kliger	Learning From Katrina Hurricane Katrina can teach engineers a lot about the unintended impact of technology as well as what can be done to prepare for the next catastrophe.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Willie D Jones	Synthetic Fuel From a Solar Collector Solar energy powers greenhouse-gas-free synthetic fuel production in Sandia experiment
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the Works for Prosthetic Arms Carbon nanotubes key to making synthetic skin that lets artificial limbs sense heat and touch.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Willie D Jones	Dutch Start-up Hopes to Spark Takeoff of Flying Car Market Engineers at Spark Design Engineering have created a three-wheeled personal air and land vehicle that takes off like a plane and lands like a helicopter.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 John Boyd	NTT Becomes a Smell-o-Phone Company Japan's NTT Communications Corp., of Tokyo, is busy developing its Kaori Tsushin, or Fragrance Communications, as a way to pull our noses into the equation. Will aroma advertising pass the smell test?
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Alexander Hellemans	Thermal Transistor: The World's Tiniest Refrigerator Thermal transistors refrigerate one electron at a time and physicists plan to compute with heat.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Morgen E. Peck	RFID Tags Guide the Blind An Italian town's buried transponders keep blind people on the right track.
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