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March 4, 2008

New Sensor Shows Electric Nature of Dust Devils

Electric field sensor could help in climate studies and
electronics manufacturing too

A Microsoft-Yahoo Merger Is About More Than Just Battling Google

Yahoo would bring Web 2.0 to Microsoft

March 6, 2008

A Nanometer-Scale Etch A Sketch

Scientists use a microscope to write and erase nanowires

March 17, 2008

Carbon Capture Starts From Coal Plant, Advances in Lab

Two research groups come up with super carbon-capturing materials

Q & A With: Actel CEO John East

Actel CEO John East explains how low-power chips can save
the world

Water Ship Up: Firm Gets $250 Million to Make Oceangoing Desalination Vessels.

Former Enron exec in charge

Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber

Scientists in Scotland say they have created a black hole's
event horizon using laser pulses and microstructured optical fiber

March 18, 2008

Climatologists and River Agency Butt Heads About Future of Southwest's Hydroelectric Power

Will hydropower from Hoover Dam end in 2013, 2017, or just
keep going?

March 19, 2008

Final Thoughts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

The last interview with the late Sir Arthur in a Sri Lankan
hospital in January found the famed author still entranced
with terraforming planets, space elevators, and the search
for extraterrestrials

Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Treasure-Diving Days

Audio Transcript: Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

March 21, 2008

Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Thermoelectric Generator

Lonnie Johnson has moved on from high-powered squirt guns
to a chip that converts heat from the sun--or anything
else--into electricity

Random Nanostructure Boosts Thermoelectric Power

Efficiency increase opens the door to many new applications
for thermoelectric converters

March 31, 2008

A Gearhead's Motorhead

An Almost All-Electric Car?

An engineer walks into a comedy club...

Electrical engineer Don McMillan has turned his love of
comedy into a career

Carbon-Nanotube Wiring Gets Real

With a need to replace copper chip interconnects in sight,
a potential successor is finally proving itself

Crusher, the Autonomous Vehicle

News brief

Death in Digital Media

Doomsday Vault

News brief

Engineering the Harvard Engineer

One man's determined quest to make Harvard a contender in engineering--after 372 years

Forum: Our Readers Write

GPS Signals Spot Signs of Typhoons

The COSMIC satellite constellation uses GPS signals for a
vertical view of the atmosphere

Gone to Pieces

The big picture

Green Machines

This year's top tech cars squeeze more performance from less fuel than before, leaving a smaller carbon footprint.

Hacking the Nokia N800

This handheld costs a tenth as much as an equally powerful
desktop 10 years ago

Magnetic Field Sensors Could Help Halt Runway Crashes

European engineers harness Earth's magnetic field to
improve airport safety

Me, My Genes, and I

Mike Daisey: One-Man Show

Mini-Profile

New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places

Capacitive deionization to debut in drought-struck Australia

Of Geeks, Modders, And Overclockers

Pleo, the Poop-Free Pet

Can Ugobe's robotic dinosaur replace the family cat?

Risk Analysis Finds Nuclear Deterrence Wanting

Engineering risk-analysis methods applied to the Cold War
years point to a continuing threat, says Stanford professor

So you want to be an expert witness

Roger L. Boyell says forensic engineering is a great
job--if you can take the pressure

Solar-Cell Squabble

Organic photovoltaics could be dirt cheap, but their efficiency is in dispute

Standardizing the Brain-Machine Interface

Every neural-prosthetics lab has its own brain-decoding
algorithm, but could one size fit all?

Top 10 Tech Cars

It's the environment, stupid

Trapped on Technology's Trailing Edge

We're paying too much to deal with obsolete electronic parts

Video-Game Music: Better Than Film Scores?

An Interview with Video-Game Music Composer John Debney

Why CPU Frequency Stalled

The data

Environmental Health and Hurricane Katrina

Examining Hurricane Katrina's toxic brew

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