Engineering

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Bio-IT World May 9, 2003 Vivien Marx	The Sharper Image See it, capture it, mine it, find it. The budding field of image informatics is empowering biomedical research.
Bio-IT World May 9, 2003 Michael Fitzgerald	Intel Inside Healthcare Technology Researchers mix nanotechnology and medicine for future diagnostic devices
Technology Research News May 7, 2003 Eric Smalley	Screen arcs widen view Viewing a large map on a small screen can be frustrating if you're trying to keep track of positions and distances of locations that fall far beyond the range of the screen. Researchers have hit upon a simple solution that allows people to keep a sense of the relative distances of key offscreen locations.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Light show makes 3D camera Researchers from the University of Kentucky have come up with a relatively low-cost method to measure depth using a single camera. The scheme involves shining a light pattern onto an object, and gaining depth information from the way the object distorts the pattern.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003 Eric Smalley	Sound forms virtual test tubes Microfluidics devices usually consist of microscopic chambers and tunnels made from silicon, glass or plastic. Researchers from the University of Washington have taken a different tack. Their microscale device uses sound waves to trap and mix tiny amounts of substances.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Nanotube shines telecom light Researchers are continually working to expand the usefulness of carbon nanotubes. Scientists from IBM Research have found a way to make the tubes emit light, and have fashioned a nanotube transistor that emits 1.5-micron infrared light, a wavelength widely used in telecommunications.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Touchy-feely goes remote How do you communicate gesture and touch from thousands of miles away? Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have put together a scheme that uses an array of individual actuators, or cilia, that people can push to remotely convey physical sensations.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Light mix makes strong metal Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Japan have found a group of metal alloys that are unusually strong and flexible.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Metal expands electrically Researchers from Germany and Austria have found a way to make metal expand and contract like piezoceramics, which are commonly used as actuators in inkjet printers and automobile fuel injection nozzles. The expanding metal, however requires less voltage than piezoceramics.
Technology Research News May 7, 2003	Researchers fill virus with metal One way to construct materials atom by atom is to conscript machinery nature has already devised.
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