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Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components.
National Defense May 2015 Allyson Versprille	Researchers Hack Into Driverless Car System, Take Control of Vehicle A group of Virginia-based researchers funded by the Defense Department found that it is relatively easy to remotely hack into a driverless car's control system, but said hardening against such an attack can be inexpensive.
Fast Company David Lumb	Why Not Google Map Your Body? Researchers at the University of South Wales, borrowing the algorithms Google Maps uses to make sense of large volumes of data, have mapped out human tissues down to the level of the human cell.
Chemistry World March 18, 2015 Tim Wogan	Drawn out success for far faster 3D printing A new, continuous-flow process for stereolithography -- one of the key technologies in 3D printing -- that is 25 -- 100 times faster than current technologies has been developed by researchers in the US.
Fast Company April 2015 Ben Schiller	Stealth Doctors: Tiny Machines Inside Your Body Tiny machines that roam our bodies, delivering drugs and killing tumors: It sounds like science fiction, but someday it'll be just plain science.
Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Simon Neil	Mercury-grabbing ionic liquids hit the gas Scientists in the UK and Malaysia have disclosed the research behind a fast and safe commercial technology for removing mercury from natural gas.
Chemistry World March 6, 2015 Anisha Ratan	Phone camera checks water for arsenic UK scientists have developed a mobile phone-based system to help people avoid drinking water contaminated with arsenic.
Chemistry World February 23, 2015 Andrea Sella	Young's valve James Young was a Scottish glassblower (1915 -- 1995), who invented the ubiquitous yellow valve
Chemistry World February 20, 2015 Geri Kitley	Google Glass to monitor plant health Scientists in the US have developed their very own pair of rose-tinted spectacles by adapting Google Glass to measure the chlorophyll concentration of leaves.
Chemistry World February 19, 2015 Richard Massey	Infrared camouflage that sticks US scientists have developed an adhesive tape that can help objects match the infrared reflectance of their surroundings and disguise them from being seen by infrared cameras.
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