Engineering

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IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Saswato Das	Ion Teleportation Scheme Could Scale Up Quantum Computers Scientists have teleported the quantum state of one trapped ion onto another a meter away
Outside January 2009 Damon Tabor	Above-Road Vehicle British SAS captain and Everest summiter Neil Laughton plans to pilot his street-legal flying car, a combination roadster/paraglider, from London to Timbuktu.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Neil Savage	Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Speed Flexible Circuits An Illinois company says it has made the first practical complementary polymer circuits.
Wired January 19, 2009 Daniel Roth	Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? With advanced robotics becoming cheaper and more commonplace, the challenge isn't how we learn to accept robots -- but whether we should care when they're mistreated.
Wired January 19, 2009 Lucas Graves	Ravenous Clock Runs Backward, Scares Children The Corpus Clock installed at Corpus Christi College is designed to slow down, stop, and even run backwards. Here's how it works.
Wired January 19, 2009 Candice Chan	Thwarting Disaster: Bridges That Can Withstand Anything Three new approaches to building infrastructures that can handle extreme temperatures, high winds, and earthquakes.
Scientific American January 2009 Linda Baker	Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways
Popular Mechanics January 16, 2009 Erik Sofge	MIT Unveils Intelligent Robot Forklift for War Zones The new, U.S. Army-funded forklift robot recognizes voice commands, can learn the layout of a makeshift warehouse and operate out of doors. It may be able to save lives on the field and make warehouse work more efficient at home.
Chemistry World January 14, 2009 Hayley Birch	MRI at the nanoscale US scientists have demonstrated the remarkable power of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by adapting it to create 3D nanoscale pictures of a tobacco mosaic virus.
Chemistry World January 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Micro-machines get a grip Crab-like microscopic robots can be used to grip cells in response to chemical triggers, US scientists have shown.
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