Engineering

Magazine articles on engineering and how things work.

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Chemistry World March 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Desperately Seeking Silicon Silicon has been blamed for the faulty fuel that caused thousands of UK cars to break down last week. How can a silvery-gray semi-metal popularly known to be used in computer chips have found its way into gasoline?
Chemistry World March 5, 2007 Stefan Hell	The Million Dollar Microscope How to break the 'impenetrable barrier' of optical microscopy.
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Jamie Hyneman	MythBusters Workshop: Extreme Plumbing A mythbusters primer on turning plumbing and high-psi tanks into things that go boom. As always, don't try this at home.
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Michael Hickins	Clash of The Robots The National Institute of Standards and Technology warns too may robots spell trouble.
Chemistry World March 2007 Philip Ball	Opinion: The Crucible Understanding why nature's materials are so smart could be the first step to educating synthetic polymers.
Chemistry World March 2007 Dylan Stiles	Opinion: Bench Monkey For structural analysis of small molecules, NMR spectroscopy can't be beat.
Wired March 2007 Evan Ratliff	The Thinking Machine Jeff Hawkins created the Palm Pilot and the Treo. Now he says he's got the ultimate invention: software that mimics the human brain.
Chemistry World March 1, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	World's Blackest Material Unveiled Researchers have unveiled the least shiny material ever made, a chunk of pure darkness that has the most anti-reflective coating known to science.
Geotimes March 2007 Rick Zalesky	Integrating Biofuels into the Fuel Supply Biofuels are but one part of a larger story -- the transition to a broader portfolio of efficient, environmentally favorable fuels, both petroleum- and biomass-based, that will supply tomorrow's vehicles.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Amal Graafstra	Hands On How the author became one of the first do-it-yourselfers to have a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag implanted under his skin and how it has changed his life.
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