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A New Route to Cellulosic Biofuels: By Phil McKenna
Friday, November 20, 2009; ZeaChem's pilot plant will make ethanol using termite microbes.

Self-Policing Cloud Computing: By David Talbot | 11/20/2009; IBM security tool searches for and destroys malicious code in the cloud.

Google Gives a First Look at the Chrome OS: By Erica Naone | 11/19/2009 | 12 Comments; The company unveils the technical details of its operating system.

Thin-Film Solar with High Efficiency: By Katherine Bourzac | 11/19/2009 | 4 Comments; Solexant is printing inorganic solar cells with nanomaterials.

Potential Treatment for Down Syndrome: By Emily Singer | 11/19/2009; Enhancing specific chemical signaling in the brain could help treat the disorder.

Computers Can't Answer Everything: By Erica Naone | 11/19/2009 | 6 Comments; A startup says natural language processing works best with human intelligence.

Bendable Magnetic Interface: By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 11/18/2009; A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers new ways to use computers.

Who's Talking About Me?: By Erica Naone | 11/18/2009; Web experts are designing technologies that can collect scattered bits of online conversation.

Making 3D Maps on the Move: By Kristina Grifantini | 11/18/2009 | 1 Comment; A vehicle uses off-the-shelf components to build 3D maps of an area.

New Hope for Neuron Protection: By Jennifer Chu | 11/17/2009; A drug developed to treat Lou Gehrig's disease undergoes clinical trials.

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Norman Borlaug, Agronomist Who Fought World Hunger, Dies: By John Pollock | 09/15/2009
Britain Calls for a Genomic Health Road Map: By David Ewing Duncan | 07/08/2009
Civilization as Experiment: By Edward Boyden | 01/19/2009
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