Engineering

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National Defense June 2011 Eric Beidel	Military Could Benefit From Interplanetary WiFi New Internet protocols designed to link the planets could help troops communicate and exchange data in Earth-bound environments where connectivity is weak.
Chemistry World May 5, 2011 Mike Brown	Turn on, tune in, power up A nanoscale antenna that can collect light and convert it into a current shows promise for energy harvesting applications, say its US developers.
Chemistry World May 5, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Revolutionary new single-cell labelling method Researchers in the US and Canada have combined mass spectrometry with a technique called flow cytometry to follow dozens of biochemical markers on individual cells simultaneously.
National Defense June 2011 Grace V. Jean	New Semiconductor Readied for Mass Production Researchers have been developing gallium nitride semiconductors for nearly two decades.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman	Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Keane & Kim	Transistor Aging Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Joshua J. Romero	Fast Start for World's Biggest Biometrics ID Project In India, a few million people have been registered for a biometric database so far - only a billion left to go.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Peter Fairley	Why Japan's Fragmented Grid Can't Cope Bridging Japan's east-west frequency divide to stoke power flows will require real engineering hustle.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Paul Wallich	Beehackers Beekeeping engineers bring cheap widgets to a 19th-century craft.
Chemistry World April 27, 2011 Harriet Brewerton	Multiple emulsion droplet design Liang-Yin Chu at Sichuan University and colleagues have designed a microfluidic device capable of producing multi-compartment multiple emulsions.
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