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November 2008
Is it flu season yet? Just ask Google.
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
Michigan leads the way for stem cells
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
R&D Election Primer
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Recycling on the ISS
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Trawling for Perspective
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
 
October 2008
Coming Attractions
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Counting to 100
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Curtailed Development
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
Searching for insight
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
The lighter side of science
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
These loans aren’t bad
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Too many 'likely's
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
Where do innovations come from?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
 
September 2008
Congrats to the LHC
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Epic fail
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Once More Into the Breach
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Run for Your Lives
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Stop, look, and learn!
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Technoism-phobia
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
The Sensor Internet
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Truthiness ratings on the Internet?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Whatever became of coops?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
 
August 2008
A new era in physical science R&D
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
An antidote for pharma’s malady
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Becoming more fuel efficient
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Can engineers build esteem?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Can you see it?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Change is inevitable
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
How long can the records keep falling?
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Keep Big Brother out of my car
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
OMG! Another ice age is coming!
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
One step closer
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R&D lost in fray
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Two Types of Games
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Waiting for the train
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July 2008
A glimmer of hope
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A Moon with a View
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Another risk of cancer?
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
Cholesterol drugs for children
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Data Big Gulp
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
EUV may prove irresistable
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Global warming affects our health
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
How much do you care about sleep?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Loss of nerve?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
NASA at 50
    R&D Daily, Advantage Business Media
Please don’t Title Nine science
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Privacy is overrated
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Technological warfare
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The classroom of the future
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
The Electric Option
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The Golden Apple
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June 2008
Blade runner
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Blind Faith Digital Data
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Crime-solving technology
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Gene mission accomplished…for now
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Global heat
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Hard times in Motown
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Is it all in our genes?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Is it safe?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Let’s really support education
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Long-term positive outlook
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Pisa’s leaning tower safe for 300 more years
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Replacing soldiers with technology
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Rolling down the same track
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Supercapattery. Where can I get one?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
The allure of IP
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
True collaboration
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
U.S. high-energy physics needs help
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
What’s in is already out
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Wi-Fi on wheels
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
 
May 2008
An electric world
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Another CR for research?
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Cytometry is having its day
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Explore More
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Genetic testing: too much of a good thing?
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Industrial designs and accidents
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Jurassic Park in Australia?
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Natural disasters: now on YouTube
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Research models are changing
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RF agriculture for water’s sake
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Silver lining in gas prices
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Space junk
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The complexity of science
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The ebbing tide of outrage?
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The Energy Dilemma
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Where are those robots?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
 
April 2008
A bump in the road
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
A new leaf
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Are we looking the wrong way?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Are we ready for the shutdown?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Back in the game
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Bad blood
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Bio this and bio that
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Bringing fun into science
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Do clothes make the man?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Earth Day: another inconvenient truth
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Evolving models
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Funding disparities
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FutureWorld
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Invasion of the body snatchers
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Life is precious, handle with care
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
March Madness without the madness
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Nursing an eco-headache
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Proceed, but with caution
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Serious endeavors
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
The Business of Disaster
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Unknown futures
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
What’s the risk?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
 
March 2008
A military presence
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
America’s love affair
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Analytical instruments: recession-proof
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Body art goes hi-tech
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Can you hear all of us now?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Drugs in the water - why worry?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Global warming? Bring it on
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Good Night Hawk
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
He is now free to wander the universe
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Inevitable impacts
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
It’s really up to us
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
NASA helps the blind see the cosmos
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Nuclear Transformations
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R&D Memories
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Racing to the future
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Second nuclear age
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Surgical breakthrough helps man face life
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Technologies at PITTCON
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
The state of science news
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Time and time again
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Where’s the water?
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February 2008
Biofuel debate heats up
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Bridges need ideas, too
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Chasing next-gen Wi-Fi
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
DARPA Advances Artificial Intelligence
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Evolution—just a theory?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Fighting for engineers
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Global Agbio
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Google Health–your medical history for your eyes only?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
IAFIS Spawns Privacy Debate
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Policy Changes
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Profits and R&D
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Rain, Rain, Go Away
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Seeing Without Eyes
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Short Fuse on Climate Change
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Spare Parts
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Tata Nano: tiny car, big implications
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Techno Slowdown?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Technology enables the reflexes of a Jedi
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
The Biotech Steamroller
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
The Energy Debate
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January 2008
A Global Climate
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Algorithm Translates Pooches’ Bark
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Energy Independence Demands Innovation
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Get Involved !
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Is Dolly coming to dinner?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Is the lead out?
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Tea, Earl Gray, hot, por favor.
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
The Commercialization of Space Flight
    R&D, Advantage Business Media
Winning at R&D
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Editor's Take
Recycling on the ISS
November 17, 2008

As the astronauts offload the cargo from the Shuttle Endeavour to the ISS today to facilitate growing the crew from three to six astronauts, one item in particular is getting a lot of press: the new toilet. This is not just any toilet: this is a $250 million loo that will recycle the astronauts’ urine, sweat, and other wastewater back into drinkable water. This is a great application of technology and could cut the annual delivery water costs for the station by about 743 gallons, according to NASA officials. Besides which, this filtering process is just an accelerated version of what happens here on Earth to produce our drinking water. In fact, the water from this system is up to some of the highest standards of water in the U.S.

With all of that said, I’m not sure I’d be able to stomach the recycled water, especially after reading Endeavour’s mission specialist Don Pettit’s description of the system as a high-tech coffee maker: "It turns yesterday's coffee into today's coffee and, in turn, it makes today's coffee into tomorrow's coffee. It's one of these great, circle of life things." Maybe for the astronauts, but not for me. I’ll take my morning coffee without thinking about what it was yesterday, thank you.



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