Space Shuttle Launch Called Off
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An important sensor in the fuel tank failed
Bursting with more ideas than business savvy, precocious
innovators turn to mentors and each other for guidance
Connected quantum dots may form the building blocks of a
solid-state quantum computer
Electronic voting may avert a repeat of the 2000 Florida
debacle, but it also creates new problems
How do you study a thing that doesn't want to be studied?
Fifteen films that try to cross-pollinate art and science
Engineers
interested in business, management, and global operations
now have many options
Summaries of Research and Inventions from Science and
Technology Journals
Telecommunications data rates are as predictable as Moore's Law
Speakers and exhibitors at an IEEE meeting in Dallas,
Texas, draw attention to proven and new tools that could
help make the U.S. grid systems much more robust
Hybrid
prototypes promise to give conventional memory a run
for the money
Portable radar devices see through walls and report what's
inside
Huge jumps in efficiency could make quantum dot LEDs the
future of flat-panel displays
Genomics
will yield drugs that can be tailored even to individuals
In
which our somewhat intrepid reporter accelerates to 430 km/h
Key chemical identification technique, nuclear magnetic
resonance spectroscopy, hits the road
Hundreds of millions of votes will be tallied in a matter of hours
The important but widely misunderstood IEEE 802.16 standard
But there were plenty of new ideas for military vehicle developers
A subway fire shines light on a system so old that it is amazing it runs at all
Experimental Marine Corps armored vehicle has diesel-electric drivetrain
Speaking out may be the ethical thing to do, but too often
it comes at a steep price
Broader applications to come from easier access to its Power architecture
Piccard wants to be the first to circumnavigate the globe in a plane powered entirely by photovoltaic cells
Washington confab releases report on maintaining an
inventive society, awards US $500,000 prize to LED inventor
Linear induction motors will replace steam catapults
Rivals hope to produce best of both worlds
Could lax enforcement harm the country's booming outsourcing industry?
The WiBro scheme advances
A start-up firm makes waves with electromagnetic modeling
software
We've been here before, says a satellite TV executive.
In the wake of the Columbia tragedy, Russia braces for the
increased role in the International Space Station program
One immediate threat to the manned program is averted, but
others remain
Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind
Achieving a diverse workplace should be more than a token
gesture--and it may be easier than you think
With cables and portable repeaters, the New York City Fire
Department is trying to make radios more reliable in
unthinkable situations
Our Science of Hollywood columnist spotlights the
celebrated work of Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, who's
become quite the scientific celebrity herself.
Lawrence Lessig has pioneered a new approach to copyright
Today's Dick Tracy wannabes can strap on PDAs, MP3 players, TVs, flash drives, and cellphones
From watching TV to lighting buildings, four new inventions
could make life easier
Network systems company is setting up regional IT training centers
As every Internet surfer knows, broadband is good, broader band
is better
NASA craft to be launched this month must act fast to catch fleeting deep space explosions
The Back Story
When success becomes too much of a good thing
With Tecplot 10, what you've got is what you see
West Virginia researchers believe the human cough may be a unique biometric identifier
Breeding sugarcane for power generation
The story behind "The Olin Experiment"
Artificial muscles that manipulate diffraction gratings may
bring truer color and a sharper image
A radio pill designed to monitor an astronaut's temperature
finds an application at the line of scrimmage
Communications error wreaks havoc in the Los Angeles air
control system
A UK company has a smarter way to commercialize R and D
The Back Story
Shane Carruth is not an engineer, but he plays one in the movies