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National Defense July 2008 Breanne Wagner	Marine Corps Ponders Latest MRAP Lessons As thousands of mine resistant, ambush protected vehicles are rushed to the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, military officials say that the enemy already has found ways to beat the heavily armored trucks, known as MRAPs.
National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	F-35 factory: One aircraft per day by 2016 Inside a manufacturing facility so large that workers routinely bike and ride golf carts down paths named after fighter jets, preparations are underway to begin mass production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Jeremy Hsu	Teaching AI to be Sociable Humans can already form social bonds with robots, but the real trick may be getting AI equally interested in us
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Monica Heger	First Exciton Integrated Circuit Built Exciton integrated circuits would negate the need to convert optical data to electrons and back again
Popular Mechanics June 19, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	7 Expert Answers for How Big Business Will Spend Cash in Space At the first-ever Space Business Forum in New York, leading rocket scientists, military officers and even hedge-fund managers crunched the numbers to illuminate the future of the space industry.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Morgen E. Peck	A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device for Parkinson's disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it
Chemistry World June 18, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Micro-magnets promise colour MRI scans Microscopic magnets could one day brighten up grey-scale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, according to scientists in the US.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Neil Savage	Chip for Future Eye Implants Runs on Picowatts, Thanks to New Deep-Sleep Tech Chip could run for a year on millimeter-sized battery.
Chemistry World June 16, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Microfluidic artistry hits the rails South Korean researchers have developed a way to efficiently assemble microstructures from plastic parts - by sculpting them to fit to rails which then guide the parts along fluid-filled channels.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Samuel K. Moore	High-Speed Moon Penetrator Tested A consortium of British researchers recently tested a high-speed penetrator -- a vehicle meant to deliver sensors and scientific instruments deep below the surface of other planets.
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