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Chemistry World May 2, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Heaviest element claim criticised Scientists claiming to have discovered the super-heavy element 122 have had their research dismissed by physicists who say their measurements are suspect.
IEEE Spectrum May 1, 2008 Sally Adee	The Mysterious Memristor Researchers at Hewlett Packard have solved the 37-year mystery of the memory resistor, the missing 4th circuit element.
Fast Company May 2008 Theunis Bates	Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe.
IEEE Spectrum April 9, 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	Antineutrino Detector Could Spot Atom Bomb Cheats A new type of detector that researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National Laboratories, recently tested detects particles known as antineutrinos that fly out of the reactor. The device can help in monitoring nuclear reactors.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 John Boyd	Electromagnetic Link Deep in the Earth Varies the Length of the Day Scientists find that 2600 kilometers down, the Earth is electrically conductive. The mineral responsible could point the way to new superconductors.
Wired March 24, 2008 Gary Wolf	Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity The famous inventors lifetime goal is to travel across a frontier in time, to pass through the border between our era and a future without human life.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Saswato R. Das	Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber Scientists in Scotland say they have created a black hole's event horizon using laser pulses and microstructured optical fiber.
Popular Mechanics February 25, 2008 Erik Sofge	MIT Fights for Clean Power With Holy Grail of Fusion in Reach A look down the belly of extreme machines producing forces 100,000 times stronger than the Earth's and forecasting the future of efficient energy.
Chemistry World February 21, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Taking the Measure of Atomic Friction Scientists in the US and Germany have successfully used an atomic force microscope to determine exactly how much effort is needed to drag a single atom of cobalt across the surface of different metals.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Peter Fairley	Does Fusion Have a Future? U.S. funding reversal for ITER suggests that fusion energy, which always seems to be close to discovery, has run out of time.
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