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Lasers haven't yet been able to shoot swarms of missiles out of the sky, but they sure can zap mosquitoes.

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Our water needs are interfering with our energy plans and our energy needs are damaging our water supply.

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Using magnetic induction to send power over distances of up to a few tens of centimeters is readily possible, but the prospects of using this technique to charge consumer electronics at much greater distances is dim.

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Engineers building a particle accelerator in Jordan hope to spur scientific collaborations across the Middle East, but political infighting has made finishing it a daunting task.

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Shooting stars can harm satellites, but we don't know enough about them.

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Hiroshi Ishiguro is building androids to understand humans--starting with himself.

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The bigger high-tech companies in Europe are recruiting EEs, but talent is in short supply, especially for smaller firms looking for very specific skill sets.

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Rutgers oceanographers successfully send a remotely controlled sub-sea probe across the Atlantic.

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We have lasers in almost every color of the rainbow but green, a hue needed to reproduce full-color video in any pixelated display.

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Which of six different technologies emerging from the laboratories will be the e-reader screen of the future?

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The willingness to jump off an obvious career path, make a sudden change in direction, and, sometimes, take advantage of a stroke of luck landed these 10 technologists their dream jobs.

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IEEE Spectrum's annual "Winners & Losers" issue--the magazine's seventh--examines 10 technology projects with milestones coming up soon.

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The world's first permanent disposal site for spent nuclear fuel is being built on Finland's western shore.

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Will a 15-year-old power plant that has survived bombings, embargoes, and blockades ever fulfill its mission to bring electricity to Palestine?

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Contributing Editor Peter Fairley investigates the promise of a small city car that uses pneumatic propulsion.

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A magical new technology has arisen from Polaroid's ashes: inkless printing with colorless color.

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Small, implantable devices will soon deliver medicine to your body without any help from you.

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The Semiconductor Industry Association considers how to engineer the next golden goose of innovation.

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How do we treat the disease of the new millennium?

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Future supercomputers for climate modeling and other demanding tasks may be built using the kinds of microprocessors now found in portable electronic devices.

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Rock on as David Kushner probes how Harmonix Music Systems created the new video game "The Beatles: Rock Band."

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Electronic contact lenses may soon enable wearers to display text and images superimposed on their visual fields.

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Dean Kamen takes his private island off the grid.

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The voltage and speed safety margins used in running microprocessors can be reduced if they are configured to recover from the occasional error.

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Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until it can overcome the mysterious malady known as "droop."

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Germany's effort to replace coal- and nuclear-fired electricity generation with renewables hinges on completing a large number of offshore wind farms--which are being developed at a troublingly slow pace.

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Going to Mars or not--now would be a good time to decide.

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To improve its film-recommender algorithm, Netflix put a price on its head.

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These chips unleashed earthshaking technologies and gadgets--and are part of the reason why engineers don't get out enough.

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Many of the piezoelectric transducers used for medical ultrasound imaging will soon be replaced with capacitive transducers, which are fabricated using techniques borrowed from the microelectronics industry.

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ASML chief scientist Bill Arnold explains how the diverging paths of memory and logic will shape the future of lithography, and makes the case for extreme ultraviolet lithography as the only feasible next step for chip manufacturing.

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This year's list of the technologically most interesting new cars suggests that a radical rethinking of personal transportation is in the air.

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The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution.

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Prosthetic-arm engineering is learning from open source, crowdsourcing, and the video-game industry.

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An electric car (or plug-in hybrid in electric mode) creates carbon-dioxide emissions, too; how much depends on the grid used to recharge it.

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Antenna experts Richard Schneider and John Ross sort out the new and sometimes complex world of the digital television antenna.

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Building a solar-powered plane to fly around the world, creating visually stunning effects in Bollywood films, designing smart robots to search for survivors at disaster sites--you wouldn't believe what some engineers get to do for a living.

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IEEE Spectrum's annual special January issue focuses on winners and losers; readers can also participate in online voting.

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The multi-billion-dollar video-game industry has become increasingly keen to make use of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research, and computer scientists--including those in the University of Alberta's GAMES research group--have taken notice of what might be AI's killer app.

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The F700 concept vehicle offers luxury-car performance, comfort, and econo-car fuel efficiency.

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The memristor--the functional equivalent of a synapse--could revolutionize circuit design.

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The long-awaited Mediterranean Electricity Ring is coming closer to reality, thanks to ongoing improvements in the electric-power infrastructure in North Africa.

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How a device that jolts a heart out of cardiac arrest became one of the greatest engineering success stories in medicine.

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Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.

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Hardware hackers are creating fantastical machines from a Victorian age that never was.

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A high-tech form of bomb disposal has evolved in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan, and may be coming to a city near you.

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The U.S. military, one of the world's most energy-hungry organizations, is tackling the mammoth task of its future security using renewable energy resources.

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After discovering a flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System, computer-security expert Dan Kaminsky helped to coordinate an industry-wide effort to patch the relevant software and prevent unwary users from being redirected to fake Websites.

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Great strides are being made toward the long-sought goal of constructing MOSFETs that are suitable for large-scale digital ICs using GaAs or similar III-V semiconductors.

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Will Wright, creator of The Sims, has given life to an evolutionary--and revolutionary--new game.