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Flamac, Imec Team to Develop New Solar Materials
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Music of the Spheres
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FDA Approves Handheld Brain Injury Detector
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BMC to Improve Imaging of Exoplanets
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Optics Pioneer Dereniak to Lead SPIE in 2012
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Alfano First Recipient of Britton Chance Award
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