Technology Review: December 2004
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A New Vision for Nuclear Waste
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Storing nuclear waste underground at Yucca Mountain for 100,000 years is a terrible idea. A better approach may be to buy some time -- until new containment technologies mature.
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Letters
- Letters
- Insights and opinions from our readers
Trailing Edge
- Space Tracker
- The earliest satellite watchers´ ideas led to GPS.
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Features
- To Fight, Verizon Switches
- Fighting to stay relevant as telephony, television, and the Internet merge, telecom giant Verizon is installing new switches and fiber that could provide all of tomorrow's media services -- whatever they turn out to be.
- Generic Biotech
- Biotech drugs can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Cheaper generic versions could save countless lives, but proving their safety and effectiveness is no easy task.
- Special Report: R&D ’04
- Technology Review´s annual look at corporate research trends and numbers including the R&D spending of 150 top technology companies, plus profiles of three hot research projects.
- Portable Projectors
- Ramesh Raskar of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory demonstrates how miniprojectors could be the antidote to handheld devices’ shrinking screens.
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Columns
- Showing Up
- Revisiting the fortunes of past column subjects.
- Screen Test
- Forget photo prints and frames. Flat-screen displays are a much better way to hang pictures on your walls.
- Innovation Diffusion
- Last word: for better and for worse, today’s technological innovations spread faster than ever.
Launch Pad
- Dual-Mode Vaccines
- Vaxinnate´s vaccines may provide better stimulation of the immune system.
Visualize
- Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
- How a new screening method used with in vitro fertilization can detect genetic diseases before an embryo ever enters the womb.
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