She was thrilled to land a lucrative internship at a bio-tech research lab after her junior year.

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High-tech lab analyses revealed panguite's chemical composition and crystal structure, which Ma said is new, and as such, could be explored for novel engineering materials.

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You take the point: the beauty category is, for all its beauty, somewhat dull, presenting the same sorts of images with the current face plugged in, once in a while throwing in a white-coated lab tech to convince us this is all high science.

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Lab tests by Tech-On, however, show the 11-inch display has an appetite for power that belies its diminutive size.

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No longer a lab project, high-tech solar power is now commercial and competitive with power rates in the parts of U.S. with the highest power rates.

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We already have Watson, the lab-on-a-chip tech is a few years out as well ( see the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize).

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MIT's Media Lab is chock-full of cutting-edge tech projects that researchers create, then often license to manufacturers and developers.

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They are PhD students at the MIT Media Lab and have an all-star record related to other cool tech projects like the Scratch programming language.

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