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The article offers news briefs related to technology. In January 2008, Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems broke a record when 31.25 percent of the sunlight hitting a dish was converted into usable power. A team at MIT has altered the common adhesive note, adding RFID tags on each paper square so they can't be lost. A new high-contrast X-ray technique developed by Swiss researchers promises greater accuracy in detecting hairline cracks in bones and airplane wings.