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Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner	What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it.
Industrial Physicist Miseo & Wright	Developing a chemical-imaging camera Major developments in detector technology have made IR imagers and focalplane arrays available to industry and in technical areas such as quality control, where the cost was previously prohibitive.
Home Toys October 2003 Ramon Esparolini	Protection During Electrical Outages; Power Quality Every Day With the expediential growth in digital technology there is an increase in the demand for high quality, low voltage which cannot be met without first obtaining high quality, high voltage.
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Irene M. Kunii	Japan: Fuel-Cell Nation NEC, Toshiba, and Sony are developing ever-smaller cells to replace batteries.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2003 John Teresko	New Dimensions For 3-D Measurements A laser-based 3-D system born in MIT's Lincoln Laboratory scales from the semiconductor lab to the production floor.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Radio tags give guidance Radio frequency identification tags promise to revolutionize commerce by making real-time inventory tracking cost-effective. Nailing the tags in place opens up another possibility -- location-specific information.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Eric Smalley	Laser made from single atom The simplest possible laser -- a single atom -- has been on the drawing board for decades. Researchers have finally achieved the extremely precise control needed to make a laser from just one atom. The first demonstration of a single-atom laser showed that it's a different animal -- it produces quantum light.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Web searches tap databases The mountains of data stored in relational databases is largely inaccessible to the Web. A search tool that allows free-text queries of databases could change things. The key is mapping the data in databases as though it were a series of links Web pages.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Heated plastic holds proteins One important task for biochips is sorting proteins, but it's tricky business getting protein molecules to be where you want them and stay away from where you don't. A tiny, plastic-coated hot plate allows scientists to trap and release proteins on command.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Reflective dust IDs substances Researchers from the University of California at San Diego have found a way to coax microscopic silicon mirrors to orient so that the mirrors reveal information about their environment.
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