Engineering

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National Defense January 2005 Robert Williams	Now Hear This: New Ear Plugs on the Way Military maintenance crews may soon be the beneficiaries of a small digital device that will protect them from permanent hearing loss caused by the roar of jet fighter turbines.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Kevin Davies	Into the Valley of Innovation An interview with president and CEO Curt Carlson of research hothouse SRI International on new technology and accelerating drug development.
InternetNews December 15, 2004 Michael Singer	Ubiquitous Computing Research Spreads Researchers with electronics maker Fujitsu and the Palo Alto Research Center signed a multi-year, joint research agreement in the field of ubiquitous (sometimes called pervasive) computing.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 Eric Smalley	Light clock promises finer time Researchers have made a prototype atomic clock that divides time on optical radiation, rather than microwave radiation. Such clocks could eventually improve global positioning systems, make space exploration more accurate, and more accurately test the laws of physics.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 Eric Smalley	Silicon Ring Boosts Light Chips Researchers have developed an all-optical switch that is made from silicon and is small enough to be made by the thousands on computer chips.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Molecule Harvests Water's Hydrogen The key to producing clean hydrogen energy is finding a non-polluting method to extract pure hydrogen from its most abundant source, water. Researchers have developed a supramolecular complex that could be used in devices that use light energy to extract hydrogen from water.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004	Virtual Ring Eases Scrolling Researchers have designed a software simulation of the physical scroll ring that works like the mouse wheel but does not require the hardware.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004	DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors Researchers have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct field-effect transistors from carbon nanotubes.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004	Scheme Simplifies Quantum Chips Researchers have brought practical quantum computers a step closer by proposing a type of quantum bit that is relatively easy to build.
Technology Research News December 15, 2004	Light Writes Info Into Atoms Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to transfer information encoded in the properties of photons to atoms.
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