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Chemistry World March 25, 2013 David Bradley	Hydrogen bond under the microscope Scientists in Japan have designed a scanning tunnelling microscope tip that allowed them to measure electron transfer across a single hydrogen bond.
Chemistry World March 20, 2013 Harriet Brewerton	Period heat source gives thermoelectric power a boost Scientists in the US have found a way to improve the efficiency of thermoelectric power generators -- devices designed to convert heat directly into electricity.
Fast Company April 2013 Neal Ungerleider	What It Takes To Build A Bionic Man A $1 million bionic robot is the first nonhuman to be built entirely from almost-human parts. You can see him this summer at the Smithsonian Museum, in Washington, D.C.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Eliza Strickland	The Gene Machine and Me Ion Torrent's chip-based genome sequencer is cheap, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz	Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Steve Mann	Steve Mann: My "Augmediated" Life Google Glass is much less ambitious than the computer-mediated vision systems I constructed decades ago. What Google's involvement promises, though, is to popularize this kind of technology. Here is what I've learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Philip E. Ross	Boeing's Battery Blues Despite fires in the 787's lithium-ion batteries, planes will become more dependent on electricity and batteries
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 David Schneider	Camera Chip Makes Already-Compressed Images Compressed sensing is brought to a CMOS image sensor
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Lucas Laursen	Robot to Human: "Trust Me" Rescue robots respond to operator stress levels
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Michael Dumiak	Tech Firms Mine Minsk's Minds Belarus's somber, sprawling capital sprouts a flourishing computing scene
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