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Chemistry World February 2, 2012 Philip Robinson	Ultrafast NMR shows the way Chemists have created an ultrafast NMR technique that can 'watch' how chemical reactions occur in real time. They've used the technique to follow the formation of pyrimidines from carbonyls and even identified new intermediates never before thought to be part of the reaction.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Erico Guizzo	Dream Jobs 2012: Bridging Brazil's Digital Divide Brazilian engineer Jose Edimilson Canaes teaches people to turn the power of computers onto social problems
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Eliza Strickland	Dream Jobs 2012: Building Ocean Explorers Ocean engineer Kevin Hardy's creations plumb the depths of the Mariana Trench
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 David Schneider	Dream Jobs 2012: Building a Hybrid-Electric, Unmanned Heliplane The leader of Aerovel's avionics design team, John Stafford, gravitates to small, informal companies
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Alaina G. Levine	Dream Jobs 2012: Designing Automation for Acrobats Phillip Toussaint's computer code moves the scenery, props, and other gear that make magic for Cirque du Soleil and other extravaganzas
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Rachel Courtland	Dream Jobs 2012: Lego Queen Nicole Richard uses Lego kits to educate budding engineers
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Marisa Plumb	Dream Jobs 2012: P2P Politics Ever since the Obama campaign, former AOL executive Jascha Franklin-Hodge has been using the Web to improve political campaigning
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Eliza Strickland	Dream Jobs 2012: Quick-Draw Animator Software creator Kevin Wang's tools turn news stories into viral videos
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Tekla S. Perry	Dream Jobs 2012: Rube Goldberg 2.0 Brent Bushnell is a jack-of-all-tech-trades with a whimsical take on real-world engineering
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Rachel Courtland	Dream Jobs 2012: Sports Geek Athlete/engineer Antoine Ravise finds his calling developing next-generation sports gear
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Eliza Strickland	Dream Jobs 2012: Web Guru for the Blind IBM researcher Chieko Asakawa can't see your website, but she can make it better
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Sung & Lee	Graphene: The Ultimate Switch Graphene could replace the transistor with switches that steer electrons just like beams of light
IEEE Spectrum February 2012	Special Report: Dream Jobs 2012 There's nothing textbook about the careers of the 10 engineers profiled in our annual Dream Jobs roundup
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al.	Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 David Schneider	LightSquared's GPS-Interference Controversy Comes to a Boil Cellular wannabe can't reach a deal with GPS community
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Neil Savage	Nanostructures Catch the Light Razor-thin solar cells could be cheap but need a little help holding light in
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Rachel Courtland	Self-Assembly Takes Shape Researchers exploit new ways to make ICs and hard disks pull themselves together
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Peter Fairley	Undersea Observatory Survives Setback Neptune Canada recovers from an outage and its U.S. counterpart finally gets started
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Paul McFedries	Tufte-isms The proponents of information design and their guru, Edward R.Tufte present -- and talk about -- data efficiently
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Ada Brunstein	Engineers: What's in a Name? The words we use for engineering disciplines have changed dramatically
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 John Blau	Passport to Engineering A new ID card will establish an engineer's credentials throughout the EU
National Defense March 2012 William I. Oberholtzer	An Inexpensive Solution for Quickly Launching Military Satellites Into Space The recent publication of the successful work done by the Naval Research Laboratory on rail gun technology indicates it is timely to consider the use of the rail gun as a timely response for the initial or replacement launch of satellites.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Jon Evans	New microbe turns sugary seaweed into fuel Seaweed may soon be a source of biofuel, thanks to an engineered microbe able to transform seaweed directly into ethanol.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Elinor Richards	Korean doors inspire new energy converter In a setup resembling traditional Korean doors, scientists from Korea have made dye-sensitised solar cells that are bendy enough to be rolled around a pen and twisted, while maintaining their energy conversion efficiency at 90% of that of the flat form.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Rebecca Brodie	Efficiently harvesting the power of the sun Scientists from Japan and India have created a dye-sensitised solar cell with the highest recorded efficiency of 11.4%, breaking the record set five years ago.
National Defense February 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Stronger-Than-Steel Light Combat Trucks Still a Pipedream The JLTV program, intended for both the Army and the Marine Corps, is becoming a test case for how far military and industry engineers can push the boundaries of armor technology as they seek a truck to replace the Humvee later this decade.
National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson	Robot-Makers Ponder Next Moves as Wars Wind Down The end of the nearly nine-year war closed one chapter for a technology that came into its own during the conflict.
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel	Booster Sought To Launch and Launch Some More When rocket boosters propel a vehicle into space, it usually is a one-time deal. Parts of a launch system burn up, fall into the ocean or remain in an orbital graveyard never to be used again.
Fast Company January 9, 2012 Adam Bluestein	As Smartphones Get Smarter, You May Get Healthier: How mHealth Can Bring Cheaper Health Care To All Smartphones and tablets are transforming the future of health care. Can we really trust them to save lives?
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Paul Wallich	3-D Printing Takes Shape In 2012, 3-D printing technology will go from prototyping to production
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Jean Kumagai	A Battery as Big as the Grid 2012 could mark the arrival of utility-scale battery storage
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Eliza Strickland	Birth of the Bionic Eye In 2012, electrodes will bring eyesight to the blind
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Lawrence Ulrich	Charge of the EV Brigade 2012 will test the feasibility of EV charging stations
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Joseph Calamia	China's Homegrown Supercomputers In 2012, China's chips will power the Dawning 6000
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Katie M. Palmer	EUV Faces Its Most Critical Test 2012 will be the make-or-break year for extreme ultraviolet lithography
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Marisa Plumb	Fantastic 4G Hundreds of telecoms will invest in 4G LTE networks in 2012
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Eliza Strickland	Good-bye, Wheelchair, Hello Exoskeleton This year, the Ekso Bionics exoskeleton for paraplegics hits the market
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Richard Stevenson	LED Bulbs for Less In 2012, there will finally be a first-rate LED bulb you can afford
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 David Schneider	Plug-in Vehicles Proliferate Full battery-electric and hybrid-electric plug-in vehicles will start hitting the streets in significant numbers later this year
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Neil Savage	Electronic Cotton Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 David Schneider	Helicopters Go Electric Electric flight takes on the final frontier
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Katie M. Palmer	Intellectual Ventures Invents Beam-Steering Metamaterials Antenna IV and others aim at cheap in-flight broadband
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland	Start-up Seeks New Life for Planar Transistors SuVolta is pursuing precision doping in its bid to compete with 3-D transistor technology
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Philip E. Ross	Don't Let Innovation Languish The world's economy depends on innovation rates that are faster than they were for most of human history -- and faster than they are today.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Robert W. Lucky	The Ubiquitous Webcam Do we really want to know what the dog does when it's home alone.
Chemistry World December 22, 2011 Laura Howes	Artificial hips glide on graphite Metal-on metal hip replacements are lubricated by a layer of graphite, say scientists in the US.
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