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Popular Mechanics September 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
30-Ton Metal Sphere Spins for Magnetic Fields (With Video!) Building a test planet takes serious engineering. Researchers at the University of Maryland have constructed a 30-ton sphere that spins at more than 90 mph to generate magnetic fields.  |
Popular Mechanics August 12, 2008 Daniel H. Wilson |
Why Invisible Men Aren't as Close as You Think ... Yet Invisibility, this week's peer-reviewed hype would have you believe, isn't just for pre-pubescent boy wizards anymore. But I wouldn't start sewing your Harry Potter-style magic cloak just yet, geeks and geekettes.  |
Popular Mechanics August 7, 2008 Mike Allen |
Water-Powered Cars: Hydrogen Electrolyzer Mod Can't Up MPGs Water-powered cars continue to be the largest single topic taking over my in box.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 |
Slideshow: Two Takes on Stretchy Circuits Breakthroughs in the United States and Japan allow for stretchable circuits, curved camera chips, and more.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Neil Savage |
Cheaper LEDs Possible by Growing Gallium Nitride on Silicon Engineers take a step toward cheaper solid-state lighting.  |
Popular Mechanics August 1, 2008 Alex Hutchinson |
Is MIT's Latest Solar 'Breakthrough' All Hype or a New Hope? MIT announced on Thursday afternoon a new method of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, predicting that it will unleash a "solar revolution." And they're partly right.  |
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 Kira Welter |
Cooler fuel cells Solid oxide fuel cells, which generate electricity at around 700 C, may be able to operate at room temperature - thanks to a new layered material that is remarkably efficient at conducting oxygen ions.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 John Voelcker |
Battery Czar Denise Gray had to take a city bus to her first job at GM, but now she holds the company's green-car future in her hands  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Richard Stevenson |
First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt Within five years, this company's thin-film solar cells could compete with coal  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Lei Yang et al. |
RAM for Free Novel data compression doubles the memory in embedded systems while hardly slowing them down  |
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