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Reactive Reports Issue 75 David Bradley	Stuck On You The race to find a material as "sticky" as a gecko's foot could soon be over as stronger and more practical materials are reported by a team based at four US institutions.
Wired October 20, 2008 Preston Lerner	Rocketeers Pack Tech Muscle Into Model A look at Gene Nowaczyk's Piperr-8, a rocketing laboratory performing experiments at altitudes greater than 100,000 feet.
Wired October 20, 2008 Preston Lerner	Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry.
Wired October 20, 2008 Katharine Gammon	Bitebot Tastes the Chemistry of Flavor Researchers at France's national school for agricultural and food industry engineering have built an artificial mouth to help them break down the chemistry of flavor.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Willie D. Jones	New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles A monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist
Wired Erin Biba	Project Runway: Testing How Tarmac Handles Jet-Plane Traffic To ensure airport tarmacs can take the abuse of planes taking off and landing, the Federal Aviation Administration continues to fund research at the National Airport Pavement Test Facility.
Wired Bob Parks	Special Delivery: Stara's Mosquito Air-Drops Right on Target Stara Technologies Mosquito can Air-drop packages to precise coordinates.
Wired Erin Biba	Automatic Gem Cutter: Fire Up the Ruby Bot Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics built the world's first automatic gem cutter.
Chemistry World October 20, 2008 Hayley Birch	RNA computers built in yeast US scientists have assembled ribonucleic acids into an adaptable logic system that can be programmed to sense and respond to molecules inside living yeast cells.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	The Mechatronics Challenge Complex product development issues will require multidisciplined engineers.
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