Engineering

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IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Erico Guizzo	The Atomic Fortress That Time Forgot The world's first plutonium-making reactor is an Atomic Age landmark--and it faces an uncertain future. The U.S. Department of Energy has been laboring for years to clean up the radioactive and chemical contamination there.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Willie D. Jones	New York Unearths Paleotech Relic A subway fire shines light on a system so old that it is amazing it runs at all.
Reactive Reports March 2005 David Bradley	Fuel Cells US scientists have demonstrated a significant boost to fuel cells that could also cut costs. By coating the cathode with a thin layer of platinum instead of using solid metal, efficiency is raised by ten percent and the use of expensive platinum can be reduced.
Reactive Reports March 2005 David Bradley	Losing the Sulfur Dutch researchers have figured out why the activity of catalysts used to produce clean fuels gradually falls. Their findings show that loss of sulfur atoms from the catalyst itself is to blame and could lead to a way to remedy the situation.
Reactive Reports March 2005 David Bradley	Microbial Manufacturing A bacterium is a microscopic chemical factory producing antibiotics, immunosuppressants, and anticancer drugs no chemist can synthesize. but pharmaceutical companies have been tapping into microbial drug manufacturing for some time.
Reactive Reports March 2005 David Bradley	Lighting-up Time for Porphyrin Nanotubes Researchers have constructed nanotubes from nature's light traps, the porphyrins, to make a system that will use sunlight to split water in a process closely related to photosynthesis, potentially enabling a solar hydrogen-based economy.
Wired April 2005 Joshua Davis	La Vida Robot How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship. The Dream Act would help such undocumented high school students afford college.
Fast Company April 2005 Lucas Conley	60 Seconds with Ray Kurzweil Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil has been alive 56 years. In that time, he has invented a reading machine for the blind, built orchestra-quality music synthesizers, and pioneered speech-recognition technology.
InternetNews March 24, 2005 Michael Singer	Palm/Handspring Creators Venture Into The Brain Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky launch a new company in search of a computer memory system modeled after the human brain.
Smithsonian April 2005 Lawrence M. Small	From the Secretary - Invention at Play The Lemelson Center celebrates a decade of nurturing the inventor in each of us.
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