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National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel	Robot Can Pinpoint Hiding Enemies California-based TiaLinx Inc. has built the Cougar20-H, a robot that can detect motion and breathing inside a structure and be controlled remotely from long distances.
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel	Pentagon Wants Off-the-Charts Computing Speeds The Defense Department awarded researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh a five-year, $7.5 million grant to build the foundation for a quantum supercomputer, a machine that can harness more power than all of the world's current computers combined.
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Contract Seeks Better Robotic Prosthetics The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency spent $100 million to develop a robotic arm that can be controlled through a chip in a user's brain.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Sociologist's Book Documents DHS' Virtual Border Wall Failures Robert Lee Maril has written, "The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border," an investigation of Customs and Border Protection's controversial Secure Border Initiative program, and its efforts to construct a so-called "virtual" wall in Arizona.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	New Multi-Band Radio Key to Interoperable Communications, But Concerns Are Raised About Price A world where police, fire, and emergency services can seamlessly communicate with each other over the airwaves has been a dream of the Department of Homeland Security since the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina four years later.
Chemistry World March 4, 2011 Fay Nolan-Neylan	Harvesting energy from soft drinks Scientists in China have made a biofuel cell that harvests energy from soft drinks such as iced tea and juices.
BusinessWeek March 3, 2011 Brian Bremner	Service Robots: Rise of the Machines (Again) U.S. companies chase the fast-growing market for service bots
BusinessWeek March 3, 2011 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Ray Kurzweil The author, inventor, and futurist says accelerating technology will soon bring us immortality -- and all the energy the earth requires
Chemistry World March 2, 2011 Sarah Corcoran	Natural products go with the flow Technology that could bring flow chemistry into the domain of complex natural product synthesis has been developed by UK scientists.
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Catherine Bacon	Unravelling chromosomes Danish scientists have used a micro device to isolate centimetre-long portions of human DNA to help study the genetic make-up of diseased cells.
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