Engineering

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Chemistry World February 22, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Toxin Test in a Lunchbox Scientists in the US have developed a cheap lunchbox-sized device that can detect exposure to toxic metals in minutes.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Creating the Body's Microenvironment to Grow Artificial Organs Scientists are using micro-electromechanical systems to grow artificial organs.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	For Now, Lethal Robots Not Likely to Run on Auto-Pilot Bart Everett, technical director for robots at the Navy's space and naval warfare systems center, acknowledged that the military isn't ready for the next generation of mechanized soldiers.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade.
National Defense March 2008 Breanne Wagner	`Smart Chaff' Being Developed To Thwart Surface-to-Air Missiles Engineers at Israel's Technion University are developing tiny, electrically conductive fibers that could someday be used to defend aircraft from missile attacks.
Popular Mechanics March 2008 Allen St. John	Anatomy of a NASCAR Crash To understand what the safety gurus are up against, it helps to know a bit about kinetic energy, which is a measure of how much work -- or damage -- an object can do in motion.
Popular Mechanics March 2008 Alex Hutchinson	NASCAR's New 180-MPH Mega-Treadmill: First Look When it opens in Concord, N.C., later this year, a full-scale, high-speed race car treadmill, the first of its kind in North America, will provide teams the chance to crunch on-track performance data indoors.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Neil Savage	The Erasable Holographic Display New three-dimensional holographic material can be written and rewritten indefinitely, paving the way toward 3-D movies.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Willie D. Jones	Engineers Work on Laser-Based Brain-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Arm Laser stimulation of nerves may light the way to better nervous-system feedback for prosthetics
InternetNews February 15, 2008 David Needle	Is it Time to Reverse-Engineer The Brain? Government panel issues a grand set of challenges for the public to vote on.
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