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Chemistry World February 18, 2015 Emma Stephen	Nanoporous methane storage -- an impossible target? Methane could reduce global dependence on oil so the search is on for nanoporous materials to act as fuel tanks for this tricky-to-store gas, but things are not looking promising.
National Defense March 2015 Stew Magnuson	Researchers Uncover New Vulnerability For Computers Used in Public Places Security experts are discovering computers and smartphones being used in public places are vulnerable to hackers even if they are not connected to the Internet.
Chemistry World February 10, 2015 Katrina Kramer	Powering up renewables with fullerene enhanced electricity grids Adding tiny amounts of buckyballs to the insulators of high-voltage AC cables makes them more resistant to high voltages, Swedish and Australian researchers have discovered.
Chemistry World February 10, 2015 William Bergius	Next generation lithium -- sulfur batteries given DNA boost In a creative application of rational design, scientists in China have turned to nature to help overcome one of the key challenges facing the most probable successor to the lithium ion battery.
Chemistry World February 9, 2015 Andy Extance	Radical observation lights up combustion Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in the US have identified hydroperoxyalkyl -- or QOOH -- radicals. The measurements will make combustion models used for designing engines more accurate, the team says.
Chemistry World February 5, 2015 Emma Stoye	'Robot scientist' speeds up drug discovery An artificial intelligence system -- or 'robot scientist' -- capable of screening potential drugs almost completely independently could speed up drug development, say the UK researchers who created it.
Chemistry World February 5, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Electron microscope turned into makeshift nano-thermometer Scientists in the US have developed a thermometer capable of detecting heat changes at the nanoscale.
Fast Company Steven Melendez	For 3-D Modeling, Startups Say The Pen Is Mightier Than The Printer Creators of new 3-D pens have said for many applications they've gotten printers beat, using a similar technology to extrude plastic and let users actually draw three-dimensional models from the tabletop up.
Chemistry World January 26, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Blue LEDs may be caught in a trap Blue LEDs are notoriously difficult to make, which has slowed down the production of cheap, highly efficient white LED light bulbs. Now, UK scientists think they know why.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Katie Lian Hui Lim	Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity.
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