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National Defense June 2009 John M. Riggs	In the U.S. Military, Cultural Resistance to Armed Robots Tele-operated robots, whose every move is controlled from a distance by a trained soldier or Marine, are becoming familiar sights in today's battlefields.
National Defense June 2009 Matthew Rusling	Navy to Explore New Ways to Employ Underwater Robots The goal is to deploy unmanned vehicles that can find buried mines, pinpoint enemy submarines and help to protect coastal areas from terrorist attacks.
National Defense June 2009 Matthew Rusling	Gliders Will Aid Naval Research The Navy will acquire underwater gliders to boost its oceanographic research efforts and to help improve the positioning of fleets during naval maneuvers.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Neil Savage	Engineers Evolve Transistors for Next-Gen Chips Evolutionary algorithms lead to new logic and memory that may smooth the way as CMOS nears its size limits
Chemistry World May 10, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Nanocrystals Stop Blinking Researchers in the US have created the first semiconductor nanocrystals that do not intermittently 'blink' while emitting light.
CIO April 13, 2009 Diann Daniel	MIT Wearable Gadget Gives You Sixth Sense, a la Minority Report MIT Media Lab researchers have cooked up Sixth Sense, a wearable computing device that turns any surface into a Web interface.
Popular Mechanics May 2009 Logan Ward	New Flying Car Aims to Save Lives in the Amazon The contraption looks like a dune buggy, but one with a propeller in back like an Everglades airboat and, billowing above, a rainbow-colored flex wing -- essentially a double-canopy parachute -- held aloft on a mast.
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Kirk Teska	Provisional Patents Are Quick, Cheap, and Worthless Patience is a patent virtue
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Willie D. Jones	New Device Lets Plants Talk Smart sensors let crops text-message growers for more water and one company claims their sensors could significantly lower the world's freshwater usage.
Popular Mechanics May 2009	Engine Researcher: This Is My Job If future cars still use internal-combustion engines, we'll have researchers like Stani Bohac to thank.
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