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Popular Mechanics April 17, 2009 Trevor Williams	Ocean Drilling Tech: Exploring Seabed History With 600,000 Pounds of Pipe On the rig floor of the JOIDES Resolution, Joe Attryde turns up the water pressure in the drill pipe to 2500 psi, enough to break the shear pins holding the core barrel three miles below the ship and plunge the barrel another 30 feet into the deep sea sediment.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Sally Adee	New Chip Brings Military Security to Commercial Processors CPU Tech's Acalis chip offers defense muscle to commercial vendors
Fast Company May 2009 Greg Lindsay	Honeywell's GPS-based Landing Tech Could Save Airlines Billions The first salvo against interminable flight delays is Honeywell's new GPS-based landing technology. It could also save billions for the airlines.
Fast Company May 2009	Inside the Next-Gen GPS-based Airplane Landing System Inside the GPS-based landing system that's finally replacing the radar-based one that's been in use since the 1930s.
Popular Mechanics May 2009 Jamie Hyneman	Can you Build Ships Out of Ice? The Mythbusters Investigate The MythBusters, build a boat out of pykrete, a combination of wood pulp and ice developed by British inventor Geoffrey Pyke during the second World War.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Glenn Zorpette	Hands-On Project: Low-Cost, High-End Class-D Amplifier Build a sweet-sounding class-D amplifier for $500
Chemistry World April 14, 2009 Hayley Birch	DNA electronics a step closer Japanese researchers have improved the electrical conductivity of DNA through simple chemical modifications.
National Defense May 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Robots Are Major Players In U.S. Military Strategy The use of robots in warfare has long ceased to be a topic for science fiction and the technology has now become an essential component of the U.S. arsenal.
Chemistry World April 7, 2009 James Urquhart	Mass spec exposes seaweed defences The activity of 28 unique anti-fungal chemicals on the surface of a single species of seaweed has been deciphered for the first time with the help of high tech mass spectrometry imaging.
Chemistry World April 6, 2009 Hayley Birch	New dye design for solar cells A new type of dye could improve the lifespan of dye-sensitised solar cells - low-cost photovoltaic cells that can convert sunlight into electricity and thought to be some of the most promising for widespread use.
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