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<title><![CDATA[Quantum gas microscope]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1033.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Physicists have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:02:43 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Water-conserving irrigation strategies]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1032.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Conserving water and reducing the environmental impact of runoff are two of the most important issues confronting container nursery operations.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Personalized solar energy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1031.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own homes and communities.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[3D laser scanning works of art]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1030.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you don’t have the time to travel to Florence, you can still see Michelangelo’s statue of David on the Internet, revolving in true-to-life 3D around its own axis.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:04:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Polishing metals with lasers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1029.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have developed a way of automating the polishing work: “We do not polish the surface by hand with grinding and polishing media. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:03:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Simulation method improves the sintering process]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1028.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The fine-grained metal powder dropping from the feed shoe settles in the mold. Stamps then compact the loose powder grains at a pressure of several hundred megapascals to produce the “green body” – a preform in the shape of the finished part which now has to be sintered in a furnace at a temperature below the melting point of the material.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:01:38 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Improved grippers for solar wafers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1027.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Accidents will happen: if you are washing a wine glass and apply just a little too much pressure it will break. A similar thing happens to technicians in the production of photovoltaic systems when they handle solar wafers. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:00:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Faster lasers measuring distances developed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1026.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Will the massive truck be able to pass under the bridge or should it take another route? Do the houses lining the street leave enough room for the oversized vehicle to pass through? Such questions are answered by sending out a car fitted with distance measuring equipment to check the route the heavy load will take.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:59:55 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Designing advanced laser-plasma accelerators]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1025.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists leverage special relativity to speed up computational modeling and open a new era for designing advanced laser-plasma accelerators]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:58:55 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Research shows how to block stealthy computer virus attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1024.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The spread of malicious software, also known as malware or computer viruses, is a growing problem that can lead to crashed computer systems, stolen personal information, and billions of dollars in lost productivity every year.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:57:54 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Harvesting energy from nature's motions]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1023.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:17:03 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Robot fish carry water quality sensors]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1022.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University. They're developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:16:09 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Earthquake energy dissipaters to protect buildings]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1021.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers are working on the design of energy dissipaters, that is, devices that act as the fuses of an electrical system during an earthquake, causing the buildings to better withstand the movement.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:27:32 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile phones collecting scientific data]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1019.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:22:18 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New ultrafast digital signature scheme for internet]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1020.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[What are the odds that your digital identity will be stolen by cyber criminals? Why do bank payment systems crash when everybody is trying to pay for Christmas gifts by credit card? ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New embedded computer systems modelling framework ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1018.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Embedded computer systems must be fast and efficient. A European consortium has created a new modelling framework that lets designers strike the best balance between static, reconfigurable and analogue hardware and the software that runs on it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:32:01 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Renewable fuel talk turning to cellulosic gas, diesel ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1017.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ethanol is the product from corn, but you also can produce gasoline and diesel directly from cellulosic feedstocks. And when you bring up the blending wall for ethanol, that means the door may be open wider for processes that will take us directly from corn stover, switchgrass and Miscanthus to biogasoline and biodiesel.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:31:07 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Improved level measurement in oil separators]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1016.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have developed a level-gauge staff that uses pressure differences to measure the levels of water, oil and gas in oil separators.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:29:49 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Electrical engineers go head to head with Genius on music playlists]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1015.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius – the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes – against two experimental music recommender systems. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Submarine dives to depth of 3.5 miles]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1014.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Engineers Edge - The United Kingdom's deepest diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Autosub6000, has been put through its paces during an extremely successful engineering trials cruise on the RRS Discovery, 27 September to 17 October 2009.

Autosub6000 was working in regions of the Iberian Abyssal Plain in the North Atlantic deeper than 5600 metres and also around the steep and rugged terrain of the Casablanca Seamount, between Madeira and Morocco. The vehicle was designed and constructed by engineers at the Underwater Systems Laboratory in the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:59:24 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World's fastest supercomputer models high-power lasers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1013.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure and temperature to initiate fusion burn.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:58:22 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sandia researcher solves problem of mixing liquids in tiny volumes]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1012.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:09:18 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers create all-electric spintronics]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1011.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:38:13 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Harvesting energy from Sugarcane]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1010.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sugarcane biomass, a significant waste product from sugar production, could be a renewable energy source for electricity production, according to research published in the current issue of the international journal Progress in Industrial Ecology.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:46:58 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1009.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, is underway.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:44:53 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Filter Filtration Suppliers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/engineering/Products_Directory/Industrial_Supply/Filter_Filtration_Suppliers_Directory/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Filter, filtration products and services directory]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:37:24 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Robotic perception, on purpose]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1007.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process, they have taken the field to a new level.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:38:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biosensor identifies cells that suppress tumor growth]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1008.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A powerful new biosensor developed by European researchers will help identify cells in the immune system that actively suppress tumor growth, and then put them to use. Enlisting the patient’s own immune system would be like sending reinforcements for resistance fighters.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:37:07 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mushrooms and water-repellants similar?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1004.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[What do spore-launching mushrooms have in common with highly water-repellant surfaces?]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:14:24 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fingerprint technology reads the rough stuff]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1003.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Technology that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world’s two toughest technical fingerprint tests.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:43:17 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British ISO Metric Screw Threads Designations - Engineers Edge]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/hardware/british-iso-thread.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[British ISO Metric Screw Threads Designations sizes data. This chart defines standard British pitch and diameters per BS 3643.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:05:16 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stub Acme Single-Start Screw Threads - Engineers Edge]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/hardware/acme-stub-thread.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stub Acme Single-Start Screw Threads size chart for engineering design.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:36:10 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oxygen exchangers increase propene production]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1002.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Researcher has shown that the yield of propene can be increased by adding cerium oxide during the production process. Propene is an important raw material for the chemical industry and its uses include the production of medical equipment. However, it is difficult to produce. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:53:56 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Green and efficient airports]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1001.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new computerised approach to airport operations is being developed that will reduce delays, speed up baggage handling and decrease pollution. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:22:43 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Tech materials for Bicycles]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/999.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Carbon fiber composite materials (CFRPs) not only make cars and airplanes lightweight but also benefit the light weight constructions for valuable bicycle concepts.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:20:38 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Assuring quality in lightweight construction]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/998.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Aerospace, automotive and airplane construction count on lightweight construction. But to make sure that lightening the load does not come at the cost of safety, Fraunhofer researchers are working on new quality assurance systems for material testing.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:19:56 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New plastic optical fiber technology]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/1000.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fiber or POF promises to revolutionize high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Performance Stainless Steel]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/997.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:02:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New material allows for fingernail-size computer chip]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/996.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of todays computer memory systems.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:16:58 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Innovative car sheet metal manufacturing]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/994.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The aim of this research initiative is to develop a new concept of manufacture of body parts for the car, based on variable profiling together with forming operations, laser cutting and electromagnetic forming (non-continuous localised details along the length of the part), reducing time and cost of manufacture.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:14:23 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The future of internet technology]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/993.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that over one billion people have access to the internet, but with an insufficient bandwidth to support the new applications of the XXI century. Transparent optical networks are the best alternative possible to provide the quality of service required by the internet of the future.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:12 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Research on the worlds biggest tunnel construction project]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/995.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The vision of a city without cars in which particulate matter and noise has been banished underground and whose parks are green oases of recreation for its citizens was the vision at the start of the project.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Faster computing, communications with plasmonic devices]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/991.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:31:17 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New laryngoscope tool]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/990.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new tool developed by a Medical College of Georgia resident and faculty member may make it easier to place assisted breathing devices under difficult circumstances.
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:29:59 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fuel cell unmanned air vehicle competes]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/989.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 23 hours and 17 minutes, setting an unofficial flight endurance record for a fuel-cell powered flight.
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:28:36 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More reliable wind turbine design experiment]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/988.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ris DTU has just concluded a large full-scale experiment on a wind turbine at Tjreborg Enge near Esbjerg on the west coast of Jutland. It is the first time that anybody has carried out detailed measurements of the load distribution on a 40-metre-long blade under natural wind conditions, thereby providing a very accurate picture of the wind flow over the wind turbine blade surface.
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:27:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers novel electronic properties in two-dimensional carbon structure]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/987.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rutgers researchers have discovered novel electronic properties in two-dimensional sheets of carbon atoms called graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:04:52 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bioengineering of nerve-muscle connection]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/986.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Modern tissue engineering developed at the University of Michigan could improve the function of prosthetic hands and possibly restore the sense of touch for injured patients. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:58:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Low-power processors and flash memory save electricity ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/985.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers  have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more energy efficient for data-intensive applications than the systems now used by major Internet services.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:53:44 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ultra-fast high-resolution video camera ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/983.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario that can record thought processes travelling along neurons. This is ingenious science.
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:39:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[3D camera for your phone?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/984.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[European researchers have created a world-leading camera in CMOS that can record photons at a million times a second. Best of all, it will be really cheap to manufacture, offering applications in consumer products, entertainment and in-car safety systems. 
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:38:07 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Engineering Motion]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineeringmotion.com/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Engineering, science and technology video sharing website. www.engineeringmotion.com]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:01:55 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New mobile air research laboratory ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/982.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new mobile air research laboratory will help a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University professor better understand the damaging health effects of air pollution and why certain airborne particles - emitted from plants and vehicles - induce disease and illness.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:17:34 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Solar cell efficiency improved on solar cell using ionic salts]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/981.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Grtzel cells are photovoltaic devices that take advantage of the interaction of a structured semiconductor less than nanometre in size and an organic dye that acts as a solar collector.
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:16:39 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Software trains deaf children sign language ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/980.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Perception: Three PhD candidates have spent the last few years at TU Delft simultaneously working on sign language.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:15:33 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/979.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[European researchers have developed promising approaches to a long-neglected aspect of car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications: fault-tolerance and resilience. The technology is a vital component of emerging applications in such communication scenarios.
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:45:14 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rocket powered by Toffee?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/978.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[An engineer at the University of Hertfordshire helped to demonstrate to BBC 1s Bang goes the Theory audiences recently that rockets can run on toffee.
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:22:36 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Technology allows seeing through walls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/977.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:19:46 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Butterfly wings produced on a nano scale]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/976.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid (UAM) have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, on a nano scale. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:09:37 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Small and Efficient Nuclear Battery Created]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/975.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Engineers Edge - Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:08:40 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Competition creates smarter solar powered buildings]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/974.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[After two years of design, experimentation, fund-raising and building, the University of Arizona's Solar Decathlon team has completed construction of its 800-square-foot solar-powered house on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:12:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple idea helps helps universities and small businesses compete]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/973.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A European-sponsored programmed that gives universities inexpensive access to state-of-the-art microchip design tools and fabrication techniques, and helps even small businesses fabricate novel microchips, is helping Europe remain competitive worldwide.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:51:04 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lab-on-chip innovation for detection of breast cancer]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/972.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A major milestone in the development of a lab-on-chip for the detection and therapy evaluation of breast cancer.  This is the first time that a lab-on-chip system including many complex sample preparation steps and multiplexed detection was conceived and is being implemented.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:50:22 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High-resolution electron microscope improvements proposed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/971.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new scheme that can overcome a critical limitation of high-resolution electron microscopes has been proposed.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:43:48 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Lamborghini Lab' to bring composite parts to sports-car arena ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/970.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A partnership between the University of Washington and the Italian sports-car company Automobili Lamborghini has been formalized, and the presidents of both organizations today attended the naming ceremony of the UW's Automobili Lamborghini Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory. 
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:35:06 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dallas Cowboys Stadium Roof Collapse Report]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/969.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A fabric-covered, steel frame practice facility owned by the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys collapsed under wind loads significantly less than those required under applicable design standards, according to a report released on October 6 for public comment by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:22:47 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Generator Installation Study]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/967.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[To subdue the steaming heat of hurricanes or to thaw out during a blizzard, gasoline-powered, portable generators are a lifeline during weather emergencies when homes are cut off without electricity.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:05:05 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Super-low power actuator made by micromachining]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/966.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The new actuator is fabricated using SOI-based (silicon-on-insulator) micromachining. The actuator combines a large range (50m) with sufficient force (195N) to position for example in-vivo brain electrodes. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:32:16 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Research improves polymer solar cells performance]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/965.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Ohio State University are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the suns energy and generate electricity. The goal: lighter, cheaper, and more-flexible solar cells.
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:31:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hydrogen production from wastewater ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/964.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The first demonstration of a renewable method for hydrogen production from wastewater using a microbial electrolysis system is underway at the Napa Wine Company in Oakville. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:07:23 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Space Stations Materials Science Research Rack ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/963.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[What's about the size of a large refrigerator, weighs a ton and may help pave the way for new and improved metals or glasses here on Earth?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:26:43 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA developing nuclear reactors the size of a trash can ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/962.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three recent tests at different NASA centers and a national lab have successfully demonstrated key technologies required for compact fission-based nuclear power plants for human settlements on other worlds.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:17:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Graphite acts like iron's magnetism]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/technology_news/posts/961.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results are promising for new applications in nanotechnology, such as sensors and detectors. In particular graphite could be a promising candidate for a biosensor material. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Concrete Footing Volume Estimator Calculator - Engineers Edge]]></title>
<link>http://www.engineersedge.com/civil_engineering/concrete/concrete-footing-volume-calculator.htm</link>
<description><![CDATA[This calculator will estimate the require concrete volume to fill footing data given. Simply input the data required within the appropriate box and select "update" button located of the bottom. Use the print button located on the right menu to print calculated data. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:34:53 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Concrete  Column Volume Estimator Calculator - Engineers Edge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This calculator will estimate the required concrete to fill the quantity, height and diameter of concrete columns. Simply input the data required within the appropriate box and select "update" button located of the bottom. Use the print button located on the right menu to print calculated data. 

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