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Technology Research News April 23, 2003	Nanotube web could mimic brain Researchers from NASA Ames Research Center have found a way to grow minuscule webs of connected carbon nanotubes. These networks could herald a new type of electronics that have huge numbers of random connections, a setup similar to a brain's synapses.
Wired May 2003 Brendan I. Koerner	The Lab that Fell to Earth Once the center of the technology research universe, the storied MIT Media Lab is now teetering on the brink of breakup -- or, even worse, irrelevance
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Painted LEDs make screen Spread it on a surface, shine tiny spots of ultraviolet light on it, and voila, a certain type of plastic turns into a full-color, high-resolution, flexible flat-screen display. The simple process could make computer screens much cheaper.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Chhavi Sachdev	Infrared headset nixes radiation Many cell-phone users have taken to using hands-free headsets to avoid the microwave radiation the devices emit, but the electrical wires that connect the headsets to the phones can also act as antennas for microwaves. A headset that connects via infrared light sidesteps the radiation problem.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Eric Smalley	Fiber loop makes quantum memory A relatively simple device that sends individual photons cycling through a fiber-optic loop could provide the memory needed to make ultra powerful computers that use the quantum states of light as bits.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Glowing beads make tiny bar codes Researchers from Corning, Inc. have found a way to form tiny barcoded beads that are small enough to be embedded in ink and attached to DNA molecules.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Alcohol powers fuel cell Researchers from St. University have developed a fuel cell that uses enzymes rather than metal and can be recharged by adding a few milliliters of alcohol. Biofuel cells could eventually be used as a replacement for any rechargeable power source, including laptop and PDA batteries.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Sandwich promises cheap storage University of California at Los Angeles researchers have used a simple, inexpensive manufacturing technique to fabricate tiny sandwiches of organic material and metal that can be used as electrical switches.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between.
Technology Research News April 9, 2003	Nanoscale rubber hoses debut Researchers from Cornell University have found a way to fabricate flexible tubes whose diameters are 100 nanometers. The tubes could be used to make stacked, interconnected fluidic networks designed to shunt fluids around biochips that sense and analyze chemicals.
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