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A Smarter Power Grid

New "power electronics" that swap voltage from line to line may be the best-and cheapest-fix for our aging electric grid.

Cooling Down in Motown

New superconducting cables are put to the test in Detroit.

DNA Chips Target Cancer

Within a few years, DNA microarrays could help diagnose and treat this killer, perhaps even before tumors form.

The Light Brigade

The U.S. has spent decades quietly developing a new generation of battlefield lasers. Now they´re ready to fire.

Claude Shannon: Reluctant Father of the Digital Age

A juggling unicyclist transformed "information" from a vague idea into a precise concept that underlies the digital revolution.

The Road Ahead

Plenty of curves lurk on the "intelligent highway."

Direct from Dell

At 19, he revolutionized the selling of PCs. AT 36 he´s ready to take on HP, Sun, EMC and Cisco.

Column

The DVD Rebellion

You can´t hold good information down. But in its heavy-handed efforts to protect copyright, the movie industry doesn´t get it.

Edifice Complex

Isn´t it about time architecture began to fully accommodate sensible automation in the home and workplace?

Culture Goes Global

Global communication has turned Maori chants-and other indigenous musical forms-into def jams.

Patent Pollution

Two Web-based startups are taking aim at bogus patent claims.

Upstream

Video Searching

Better methods for finding a face in the crowd.

Reviews

Eating the Genes

What the Green Revolution did for grain, biotechnology may do for protein.

Visualize

Functional MRI

A magnet and radio signals detect brain activity.

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