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IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Erico Guizzo	The EE Gender Gap Is Widening Electrical engineering faces an age-old question: What do women want?
Chemistry World November 25, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Silicon for better batteries A new silicon-based anode could greatly increase the storage capacity of lithium ion batteries - boosting the runtimes of devices such as laptops and mobile phones by up to seven times
Popular Mechanics December 2008	10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2009 Concepts from energy scavenging to low rolling-resistance tires are expected to make headlines for 2009
IEEE Spectrum November 2008	Electrical Engineering Leader Casts Doubt on Biofueled Future Georgia Tech's Deepak Divan finds that Earth's land and water cannot sustainably support the most ambitious visions for ethanol or biofuels. But he sees great promise in other renewable energy.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Sally Adee	For those without hands, there's Air Guitar Hero DARPA project repurposes Guitar Hero to train amputees to use artificial arms
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Monica Heger	IBM Tests Heating Homes With Data-Center Waste Heat Cooling computers with hot water is a step toward zero-emission data centers
Chemistry World November 19, 2008 Hayley Birch	Colourful future for nanowires Dutch scientists have worked out how to fine tune the stripes of alternating crystal lattices that form in semi-conducting nanowires.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Joshua J. Romero	Slideshow: Meet the Universe's Ultimate Engineers The winning entries from IEEE Spectrum's Spore Creature Creator contest
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Samuel K. Moore	PlayStation 3 Processor Speeds Financial-Risk Calculation Georgia Tech's parallel processing code for PlayStation 3's Cell processor makes mountains of random numbers to improve Value-at-Risk and other important algorithms
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Ray Almgren & Mark Walters	Let the Games Begin The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition leaps onto a new controller platform.
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