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IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Willie D. Jones	Swiss Invent a Muscular Display Today's high-end display would be perfect if only it offered more detail and true color. Now Swiss researchers propose to solve both these problems with moveable gratings that break white light into a rainbow and bend the right part of it to a spot on the screen.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Justin Mullins	The Case of Earth's Incredible Shrinking Field Data hidden in the logbooks of 16th, 17th, and 18th century ships have allowed geophysicists to build a picture of the Earth's magnetic field in the centuries before detailed measurements were possible.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Laser on Silicon Scientists have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Alexander Hellemans	Spin Doctoring Many research groups around the world are looking for ways to replace copper connections on VLSI chips. A really exotic concept relies on atomic spin, a quantum-mechanical property related to magnetism, and on waves generated when that spin is disturbed.
Chemistry World October 19, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Invisibility Cloak is Latest Amazing `Metamaterial' Chemists beware -- the metamaterialists are making startling progress. The latest structure composed of a metamaterial is a remarkable cloaking device that can render an object invisible to microwave radiation -- in two dimensions at least.
Chemistry World October 17, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Heaviest Element Awaits Confirmation A team of Russian and American scientists has claimed the discovery of element 118, the newest and heaviest addition to the periodic table.
Chemistry World October 16, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Antimatter Persuaded to React with Matter Matter and antimatter usually destroy each other in a flash of energy and a spray of exotic particles when they meet. Yet the two have been coaxed into into a chemical reaction.
Science News October 14, 2006	Science Safari: Hawking at CERN The CERN Web site offers a glimpse of physicist Stephen Hawking's visit and video of two lectures that he presented.
Chemistry World October 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Higher Than the Sun Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, head of the UK fusion program, would like to see viable fusion power a reality in his lifetime. To this end, he is strongly backing Iter, an international fusion project.
Chemistry World September 13, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Red Oxygen Structure Revealed An international team of researchers has cracked a conundrum that has baffled scientists for years: they have elucidated the crystalline structure of an enigmatic phase of solid oxygen that arises when the molecule is subjected to high pressure.
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