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IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Lynn Claudy	TV's Future: The Broadcast Empire Strikes Back New digital technologies could put over-the-air TV back in vogue in the United States and around the world.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Robert Creighton	The Benefits of Airborne Wind Energy Tower-mounted wind turbines dot the landscape, but airborne systems offer some surprising advantages. My company uses kites to generate electrical power from the wind. Such airborne wind-energy systems offer many advantages over standard wind turbines.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Flash Memory Survives 100 Million Cycles A little heat lets flash beat typical 10 000-cycle limit
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Celia Gorman	Is Slime Mold Smarter Than a Roomba? The humble protozoan glop can do some amazing things
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Tam Harbert	New King of Security Algorithms Crowned A five-year hunt for a new cryptographic hash scheme leads to the discovery that the old one was really good
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Richard Stevenson	Powerful PVs Approach 50 Percent Efficiency Start-up Solar Junction thinks it has the right recipe in a triple-cell scheme
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Paul Wallich	The DIY Kid-tracking Drone Building an Arduino-based gyrocopter that can follow a child
Chemistry World November 23, 2012 Nuala Moran	Can the UK fund CCS? After several false dawns, two recent announcements suggest commercial-scale carbon capture and storage could finally be getting the go-ahead in the UK.
Chemistry World November 14, 2012 John Emsley	Human development James Wei, author of Great inventions That Changed the World, is an engineer. He has written a remarkable and wide ranging work that spans human development from the stone age to the computer age.
Chemistry World November 12, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Terminator-style self-healing robot skin moves closer to reality Synthetic skin for robots that can repair itself when it becomes damaged -- akin to the idea of the T-800 cyborg in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator films -- has taken a step closer to reality with new research by scientists in the US.
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