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IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	Energy-Efficient Ethernet Ethernet connections waste lots of watts. It need not be so.
IEEE Spectrum May 2008	Her First DARPATech A look inside the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's convention with the latest and greatest in bionic-arm prosthetics, robo-geckos, and autonomous learning robots.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Saswato R. Das	Quantum Cryptography Cracked? Swedes find vulnerability in supposedly secure quantum cryptography system.
Popular Mechanics April 25, 2008 Erik Sofge	Inside the Forgotten X Prize--the One That Can Save Your Life An extensive look at the Archon X Prize in Genomics, the $10 million race for a cheap, disease-hunting gene sequencer that could land on your kitchen counter sooner than you think.
Chemistry World April 24, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Radiochemicals firm first to recycle tritium GE Healthcare's radiochemicals group has developed a way to turn all the radioactive tritium waste it produces back into material pure enough to be used again.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Willie D. Jones	How Much Water Does It Take to Make Electricity? Natural gas requires the least water to produce energy, biofuels the most, according to a new study
Popular Mechanics April 22, 2008 Chris Ladd	Trees in Your Tank? The Future of Green Gasoline: Earth Day Extra Researchers recently published a new method of refining hydrocarbons from cellulose, paving the way to turn wood scraps into gasoline
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	Ground Robots' Place in Military At Risk, Experts Warn With the success of explosive ordnance disposal robots in Iraq and Afghanistan, one might assume that "mechanical soldiers" are here to stay. But that might not be the case.
Popular Mechanics May 2008 Daniel H. Wilson	10 Genius Inventions We're Still Waiting For New tech that will transform our lives. Now all we need is someone to invent it.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Neil Savage	Plasmonic Imager Could Slim Down Spy Satellites But even its developers are far from knowing if it will work.
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