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Popular Mechanics April 2009 Amber Angelle	The Seeing Machine: Retina Projection for the Visually Impaired The Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope is a tool that uses an infrared laser to shine an image onto the retina, bypassing hemorrhages and other defects within the eye.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Willie D. Jones	Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies A motor-studded haptics jacket can run a chill up your spine
Popular Mechanics April 2009 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Does High-Tech Highway Design Make us Less Safe? Tom Vanderbilt's latest book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), has a recurring theme: Making things safer may actually make them more dangerous.
Popular Mechanics April 2009 Ben Block	Can Fish Teach us to Make Hydropower in Calm Waters? Hydropower researchers at the University of Michigan are borrowing strategies from fish to maximize the energy that can be harvested from slow-moving water.
Chemistry World March 17, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Electronic 'nose' could shed light on sense of smell Korean researchers have combined human smell receptors with nanotechnology to create a new kind of 'bio-electronic nose'
Chemistry World March 17, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Super-buoyant rafts take float Chinese scientists have made super-buoyant miniature boats from copper mesh coated with silver.
Chemistry World March 17, 2009 Rebecca Trager	Maths mistake sidelined FutureGen project Congress' non-partisan Government Accountability Office has just released a report blaming a mathematical error for FutureGen's cancellation, and now the new DOE director is considering reviving the program..
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage	Spintronic Memristors Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently discovered fourth circuit element
Scientific American March 2009 Elaine Schattner	A Chip against Cancer: Microfluidics Scrutinizes T Cells With just a blood sample, a device could determine whether cancer is about to spread or monitor the progress of treatment
National Defense April 2009 Robert H. Williams	Chaos Goes Where No Robot Has Gone Before An autonomous tracked platform that can be used for troop extraction, resupply, and search and security operations was tested by U.S. Marines in this year's Cobra Gold exercise in Thailand.
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