Engineering

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Bio-IT World March 10, 2003 Mark D. Uehling	Technology Overload Inundated with new IT tools and mountains of data, the pharmaceutical industry struggles to pull it all together.
CIO March 1, 2003 Christopher Lindquist	Low-Heat Laptops You won't be able to use your laptop as a portable coffee warmer anymore, if technology from Sandia National Laboratories goes mainstream.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Handhelds gain space Handheld computers are convenient and are quickly getting more powerful, but you can't get around that small screen. You can, however, get the screen around large documents. The trick is being able to scroll by moving the device around in the space surrounding you, one researcher thinks.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Ceramic yields under pressure Ceramic is usually unyielding. It responds to pressure by resisting fully, or, when the pressure is too great, by breaking. Researchers from Drexel University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have stumbled on a ceramic-like material that compresses and springs back.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Virtual DNA replicates Self-replication is all around us, but it's not a simple process. Artificial life researchers from Canada have found a way to examine the phenomenon more closely using a computer simulation of self-replicating strings of symbols that work as a simplified sort of DNA.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 Eric Smalley	Quantum computing catches the bus National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have tapped an aspect of classical computers and a pair of weird particle traits to allow distant particles, or qubits, to communicate as though they were in contact.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Stamp bangs out plastic circuits Today's transistors are etched from silicon wafers in a multi-step process that involves laser beams, chemicals and clean rooms. A simpler process would make for cheaper computer chips, and a gentler process would allow for transistors of different materials.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	DNA forms nano piston DNA is a molecule of many talents. In addition to its biological role of carrying the blueprint to life, it has performed computations and self-assembled into various shapes in the laboratory. Some of those shapes are movable, which paves the way for molecular machines.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Alloy lowers fuel-cell cost Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to make fuel cells that are potentially cheaper and easier to manufacture than previous prototypes. The method is a step toward making the relatively clean energy-generating technology commercially viable.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Lasers drive tiny toolset Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan have used light to drive a pair of resin nano tweezers and a nano needle.
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