Engineering

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Scientific American May 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs	The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here Realizing crucial energy technologies will take more than just research and development. The overarching challenge is to make the transition at minimum cost and without economic disruption.
Scientific American May 2007 Charles Q. Choi	Structured Settings Researchers have taken big steps in creating and using nanostructures that have eluded manipulation in the past.
Chemistry World April 16, 2007 Tom Westgate	Smallest Pipette Delivers Zeptoliter Volumes The world's smallest pipette has been developed by scientists. It is capable of dispensing drops of a molten gold-germanium alloy with a volume of a few zeptoliters, that is, a billionth of a trillionth of a liter.
Fast Company May 1, 2007 Chuck Salter	Failure Doesn't Suck Today, Dyson makes the best-selling vacuum cleaner by revenue in the U.S. and is one of the richest men in Britain. Here, Sir James Dyson talks about getting it right after 5,126 tries -- and how to move air at 400 mph.
Science News April 14, 2007	Science Safari: Greaseball Challenge Here's a link that shows the participants in a charity biofuel car rally who are on their way from the U.S. East Coast to San Jose, Costa Rica.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Andy Hospodor & Joe Hospodor	Robo-Girls Know the Way to San Jose An unprecedented seven all-girl teams brought their best robots to San Jose State University to compete in the Robotics Silicon Valley Regional match. The routes they took to the competition were as different as their robots.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 John Teresko	Seeing More With Machine Vision The performance and sophistication gap between low-cost vision sensors and high-end vision systems is closing.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 John Teresko	The Promise Of Machine Emotion "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human Mind" considers whether machines can efficiently and effectively help us if they don't understand the context within which they perform a service.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Nanotechnology Commercialization Efforts Continue As potential nanotech sales grow, so too does scrutiny.
Chemistry World April 11, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Fuel Cells Guzzle Glycerol Fuel cells traditionally use oxidizing platinum catalysts to generate a flow of electrons from molecules like hydrogen or methanol. But such catalysts are expensive and can produce toxic byproducts. Now researchers are using microbial fuel cells.
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