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Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Douglas Fox |
IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time This computer simulation, as large as a cat's brain, blows away the previous record -- a simulated rat's brain with 55 million neurons -- built by the same team two years ago.   |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Hopes Stirring at NASA for Ares Engineering Vindication: Exclusive NASA engineers at Marshall Flight are cautiously optimistic that the fears about the under-construction Ares I rocket's propensity to shake violently have been overstated. |
National Defense
December 2009
Stew Magnuson |
New Tunnel Detection Test Site in the Works The Defense and Homeland Security Departments are expected to break ground during the coming year on a joint clandestine tunnel detection test site at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. |
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright |
Polar Ice Surveillance At Rock Bottom Prices University of Kansas researchers needed an unmanned aerial vehicle that could carry 120 pounds worth of radar equipment at low altitudes and over icy terrain to measure vital information for the Navy in Antarctica. |
National Defense
December 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
In the Race to Be Green, Navy Moves to the Front of the Pack The Navy is positioning itself to take the lead among the military services in the use of renewable energy and in planning for future contingencies that may result from climate change. |
National Defense
December 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Saudi Arabia Securing its Borders with Sensors and Software The Saudis awarded lead contractor EADS a program -- reportedly worth billions of dollars -- to secure the country with a virtual high-tech fence. |
National Defense
December 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Calif. Ranchers Wield British Radar to Detect Illegal Border Crossers Frustrated by trespassers attempting to cross into the United States illegally, ranch owners in southern California have purchased a British radar in an effort to protect their property and to help Border Patrol agents nab more intruders. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Jeffrey T. Borenstein |
Flexible Microsystems Deliver Drugs Through the Ear A microelectromechanical systems-based microfluidic implant could open up many difficult-to-treat diseases to drug therapy |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Divan & Kreikebaum |
Biofuels Aren't Really Green Cultivate inorganic energy sources instead of biofuels. The model we constructed showed that there is simply not enough land and water to support a prosperous biofueled world. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Peter Fairley |
Deflating the Air Car Green cars could run on compressed air instead of batteries. But don't rely on the new AirPod minicars to prove it |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Philip E. Ross |
Rebuilding the IBM 1401 A gang of veteran engineers breathes new life into the hulk of an old IBM 1401 computer |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Tekla S. Perry |
Zink: Inkless Printing With Colorless Color A magical new inkless printing technology has risen from Polaroid's ashes |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Sally Adee |
Chip Design Thwarts Sneak Attack on Data Cache architecture harnesses the power of randomization to neutralize security attacks. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Sally Adee |
New Director for U.S. Energy Department's Mad Science Wing President Barack Obama chose Arunava Majumdar as the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, the U.S. Department of Energy's new research incubator. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Peter Fairley |
Plastic Solar Cells Roll Into Unlit Villages Printed roll-to-roll organic PVs may not be the most powerful, but they're cheap. A scientist at Denmark's Riso National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy has found a cheap way to integrate LEDs, photovoltaic cells, and ultrathin lithium batteries into a potentially life-saving lamp. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Robert W. Lucky |
Engineering Achievements: The Two Lists Will the grand engineering challenges of the 21st century be unlike the greatest achievements of the 20th? |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Glenn Zorpette |
It's the Stupidity, Stupid What the demotion of classical station WQXR to 600 watts means for civilization |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009 |
A High-Pressure Assignment Contributing Editor Peter Fairley scrutinizes a novel means of propulsion |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Mark Anderson |
A New Spin on an Old Toy The humble yo-yo gets a high-tech makeover. A top-of-the-line yo-yo these days is a precision-engineered device with a two- or three-figure price tag. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Prachi Patel |
Aerospace Job Forecast: Skies Are Clearing Long-term contracts buffer the aerospace-engineering market |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Mark Anderson |
Do-It-Yourself Hydro For Kids A new science kit brings hydropower to the playroom. Earlier kits include Wind Power, Fuel Cell, Power House, and Global Warming. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
David Schnieder |
If You Build It, Santa Will Come Kits for building musical pencils, Theremins, crystal radios, and shortwave radios |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Steven Cherry |
Long Live Analog TV--on Cellphones Mobile phones breathe new life into a dying technology |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Mark Montgomery |
Yamaha's Grand Illusion The world's first digital grand piano plays like the real thing, at a fraction of the cost -- and size |
Popular Mechanics
November 11, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
4 High-Tech Surprises From the USS New York Invisible Invasions... Stealth Crane... Smart Layout... Decoys... |
Popular Mechanics
November 10, 2009 |
Oasis of the Seas Cruises Home to Ft. Lauderdale: Gallery The Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, is on schedule to come home this Friday after its maiden voyage from Turku, Finland. Here are pictures of the construction, test run and maiden voyage of the Oasis. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Michael Belfiore |
How Better Place's Robotic Battery Swap Stations Work It takes more than just a vehicle to convince consumers to adopt electric cars. Recharging their batteries has to be as easy as filling up a tank of gas. |
Chemistry World
November 9, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Microscopic springs made from nanotube composite Researchers in the US have developed a way to rapidly make tiny 3D objects out of a carbon nanotube-enriched polymer, using UV light to quickly set the structure in place. |
Popular Mechanics
November 6, 2009
Ben Stewart |
12 X-Prize Contenders Show Off Their MPG Tech At SEMA 2009 The Specialty Equipment Market Association convention in Las Vegas was the venue for many advanced engineering designs for electric and hybrid vehicles of the future. |
Popular Mechanics
November 6, 2009
Mike Allen |
Hydrogen Gadgets at SEMA: Cars Still Can't Run on Water Most gas savers I've investigated don't come with credible test results, just anecdotal testimonials. Caveat emptor, readers! |
Popular Mechanics
November 3, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Bridges: Gallery Unique innovations are found all over the world in local bridge designs. |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Terrence Sejnowski |
Robotic Learning We're on the verge of an era where inexpensive robotic teaching machines can augment classroom learning. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mark Wolverton |
How to Use a Cyclotron Particle Accelerator to Fight Cancer To target cancer cells alone, the University of Pennsylvania is opening a next-generation treatment facility that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver pinpoint strikes. |
Popular Mechanics
October 30, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths These sci-fi scenes may look cool on film, but real science tells a different story. |
Popular Mechanics
October 29, 2009
Jeff Wise |
Engineers Cite Vibrations, Wind in Bay Bridge Failure Engineers working on San Francisco's ill-starred Bay Bridge have fingered a culprit in the repair job that went awry Tuesday evening |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Jay Leno |
Jay Leno Builds a Turbine-Powered Biodiesel Supecar I sat down with Steve Anderson and Frank Saucedo from General Motors' Advanced Design Studios and told them what I had in mind. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
Wave Power Desalination Plant Coming Soon to Texas With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
Do Dryer Balls Work? As Seen on TV Lab Test Difficult to detect a noticeable difference -- other than increased noise -- when drying with the Balls. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Sodium-Sulfur Home Battery The most popular alternatives to fossil fuels for generating electricity -- wind and solar -- don't look so good once the sun sets and the wind dies down. |
Popular Mechanics
October 20, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
The Key to the Battery-Powered House: Q&A With Ceramatec Ceramatec's advanced-materials specialists and electrochemists have developed a sodium-sulfur battery that potentially could produce 5 kilowatt-hours for 4 hours before needing to recharge. |
Popular Mechanics
October 19, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
10 Scarecrows for the 21st-Century Farmer Today, farmers turn to high-tech devices equipped with motion sensors and water cannons to keep pesky birds from pillaging their land. |
Popular Mechanics
October 16, 2009 |
Winners Announced in Solar Decathlon Competition Twenty teams, were pitted against one another in a showdown of architecture and engineering. |
National Defense
November 2009
Grace V. Jean |
In the Eye of the Beholder: Contact Lenses as Displays and Sensors Scientists believe that the little plastic discs that hundreds of millions of people rely on to see clearer may one day serve military personnel and medical patients as information displays and health monitoring devices. |
National Defense
November 2009
Austin Wright |
Smart Vests Take Pressure Off Troops Technology is now being developed that may allow troops to better distribute their loads so they're more comfortable. |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Joe Hasler |
X2 Helicopter Gurus Pay Homage to Engineering Inspirations The team that designed the world's fastest helicopter explain how they got into the biz. |
Fast Company
November 2009
Heath & Heath |
A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting Problems that are difficult in one domain may be trivial to solve from the perspective of a different domain. We should stop looking for experts and start looking for analogues. It's a big world: Chances are someone has solved your problem. |
National Defense
November 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Debate Over Rules, Legality of Robots On The Battlefield Lagging, Experts Say As researchers push ahead with algorithms designed to give robots more autonomy, ethicists and legal minds warn that not enough thought is being given to the implications of using unmanned systems to apply lethal force. |
National Defense
November 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Robotic Humvees Resupply Troops Downrange The Defense Department is pushing hard for the development of fully autonomous robots that can replenish supplies, evacuate casualties and even search for explosives. |
National Defense
November 2009
Austin Wright |
Machine That Predicts Terrorists' Intent Showing Progress Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) can sense the fear in your eyes, skin, heartbeat and movements, and then will determine whether the signals are the result of hostile intent or just a bad day. |
Popular Mechanics
October 12, 2009
Matt Molnar |
UW's Meltwater House is Inspired by Glaciers: Solar Decathlon Like most project managers rushing to complete their homes at the inception of Solar Decathlon 2009, Eric Harmann hasn't had much sleep. |
Popular Mechanics
October 9, 2009 |
Virginia Tech's Lumenhaus Sports Sliding Solar Panels: Solar Decathlon Hard-hatted Department of Energy inspectors roamed the Solar Decathalon job sites with check lists |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Meigs & Beilinson |
Exclusive Interview With Inventor and Innovator Dean Kamen Dean Kamen has transformed medical technology and amassed more than 440 patents. And in his spare time he is remaking American culture, one future engineer at a time. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009 |
The Adventures of Inventor Dean Kamen: Timeline A timeline on the life of Dean Kamen, from when he hacked his parents house to his invention of the Segway and a cheap system for purifying water. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: X2 Coaxial Rotor Helicopter Innovation promises a brighter future. Here is a look at 10 of this year's brilliant innovators and their inventions. |
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