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• Extrasolar Planets
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  Astronomers Need Your Help To Find Planets Outside Our Solar System

  A new distributed computing program analyzes data to characterize new planetary systems by computing the light reflected from nearby extrasolar planets and the wobble the planets cause in their stars ... > more
• Transportation Science
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  Mechanical Engineers' Material Enhances Car Brakes

  A fiber-reinforced ceramic, traditionally used in jets, has now been made into brakes for cars. The fibers strengthen the material and help keep it from ... > more
• Energy and the Environment
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  Mechanical Engineers Create High-tech Solar Panels

  Photovoltaic panels have a new design: concentric circles that focus the sun's rays on miniaturized modules. Having the panels automatically sense sunlight and turn towards it also makes these ... > more
• Optics
  Energy and the Environment
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  Electrical Engineers Create Money-saving Light System

  A photosensor paired with a dimming ballast controls fluorescent lighting and adjusts lights all over the user's home. A microcontroller automatically calibrates amounts of daylight and adjusts ... > more
• Computer Science
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  How Computer Scientists Are Perfecting Human Facial Expressions In Animated Movies

  3-D effects in the movies can now be created by capturing reflected light off actual human faces. Digital images of the strobe-light pictures are animated to produce more realistic human ... > more
• Acoustics
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  Doppler-based Stethoscope Ignores Outside Sounds

  A new ultrasound stethoscope ignores outside noise, allowing medics to hear life-saving sounds inside the body. Developed by electrical engineers, the device exploits the Doppler effect as it sends ... > more
• Materials Science
  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Chemists Create Self-assembling Conductive Rubber

  Polymer chemists have created a flexible, indestructible material, called metal rubber, that can be heated, frozen, washed or doused with jet fuel, and still retain its electricity-conducting ... > more
• Chemistry
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  Optical Engineering Makes Movie Motion Realistic

  Students at the Aesthetic Technologies Lab are recording the way light bends to track their every move and improve movie technology. Long strips of fiber optic tubes snake around the body and are ... > more
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  Human Factors Engineers Improve DIY Tools

  Human factors engineers say many household injuries can be avoided by following a few simple protective steps. They are also making tools safer to help reduce accidents, re-designing protective gear ... > more
• Internet
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  Finding A Whatchamacallit On The Web

  VizSeek is one of the first search engines on the Internet to use a photograph, a 2D image, or a 3D model and transform it into a 3D shape. The search can be narrowed with additional information. The ... > more

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