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Popular Mechanics July 2008 Erin McCarthy	Building America's Most Extreme New Roller Coaster Fahrenheit will provide 2 solid minutes of corkscrews, barrel rolls and inversions. "That way every time you get on this ride," Kent Bachmann says, "you can have a different experience."
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Erin McCarthy	5 Roller Coasters Mega-Engineered to Make You Scream Coasters are described in travel destinations in Ohio, Connecticut, Virginia, California, and New Jersey
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 John Voelcker	Lithium Batteries On The Way For Hybrids In just one year, the whens and wheres of lithium battery packs for hybrid and electric cars have come into much sharper focus
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Are Venture Capitalists Misplaying Nanotech? Nanotechnology funding is out of sync with returns.
Popular Mechanics June 10, 2008 Chris Ladd	5 Brilliant Startup Ideas From MIT's New Crop of Graduates MIT's rainy graduation on Friday saw 2,335 graduates receive their degrees, but some students are already taking their breakthroughs to market.
Popular Mechanics June 9, 2008 Jancy Langley	How the PS3 Helped Build the World's Fastest Supercomputer The military isn't the only branch of U.S. government that relies on gaming companies for its R&D. Pentagon geeks may use Xbox 360 controllers, but government-funded scientists went straight for the hardware.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Saswato R. Das	Tabletop EUV Light Source South Korean research team demonstrates an economical way to generate EUV light using femtosecond laser pulses.
Popular Mechanics June 9, 2008 Emily Masamitsu	New Solar Thermal Rig Makes Clean Energy Easy as Boiling Water Ausra, of Palo Alto, Calif., has built a prototype of a system that will become the largest solar thermal energy facility in the United States.
Chemistry World June 6, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Fingerprints Recovered From Wiped Metal Forensic scientists can now find fingerprints on metal surfaces that have been wiped clean. Scientists have developed a way of enhancing the patterns that fingerprint residues corrode in metal surfaces.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Monica Heger	Human Travel Patterns Surprisingly Predictable Individual travel routines, as tracked by cellphone signals, provide useful data on human travel behavior.
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