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  Wireless Energy Could Power Consumer, Industrial Electronics

  November 14, 2006 — Recharging your laptop computer, your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets may one day be as convenient as surfing the web -- wirelessly. Marin Soljacic, an assistant professor in MIT's ... > full story
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  Portable 'Lab On A Chip' Could Speed Blood Tests

  October 18, 2006 — Testing soldiers to see if they have been exposed to biological or chemical weapons could soon be much faster and easier, thanks to MIT researchers who are helping to develop a tiny diagnostic device ... > full story
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  Simulated Eclipse: Cluster Spacecraft Wakes Up From Deep Hibernation

  October 7, 2006 — On September 15, flight controllers at ESA's Space Operations Centre watched tensely as "Rumba," No. 1 in the four-spacecraft Cluster fleet, was switched into a low-power, deep hibernation mode. The ... > full story
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  Mars Express Successfully Powers Through Eclipse Season

  September 26, 2006 — The Mars Express spacecraft has emerged from an unusually demanding eclipse season introducing a special, ultra-low-power mode nicknamed 'Sumo' -- an innovative configuration aimed at saving the ... > full story
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  Engine On A Chip Promises To Best The Battery

  September 20, 2006 — MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering ... > full story
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  Ceramic Microreactors Developed For On-Site Hydrogen Production

  September 20, 2006 — Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed and built ceramic microreactors for the on-site reforming of hydrocarbon fuels, such as propane, into hydrogen for use in ... > full story
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  Brown Engineers Build A Better Battery -- With Plastic

  September 14, 2006 — It's thin, light, flexible -- and plastic. Brown University engineers Hyun-Kon Song and Tayhas Palmore have created a prototype polymer-based battery that packs more power than a standard alkaline ... > full story
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  Tiny Fuel Cell Might Replace Batteries In Laptop Computers, Portable Electronics

  September 13, 2006 — Chemists at Arizona State University in Tempe have created a tiny hydrogen-gas generator that they say can be developed into a compact fuel cell package that can power laptop computers and other ... > full story
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  FDA Approves First Totally Implanted Permanent Artificial Heart For Humanitarian Uses

  September 5, 2006 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first totally implanted artificial heart for patients with advanced heart failure involving both pumping chambers of the heart under the ... > full story
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  Electronic Life Extension: New Electrode For Lithium Rechargeable Batteries

  August 30, 2006 — Peter Bruce of the University of St. Andrews and team have devised a new and efficient way to improve battery power as well as make charge last longer by using lithium oxide intercalation materials. ... > full story

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