March 2008 Feature Articles

A Manhattan Project for the Next Generation of Bionic Arms

Johns Hopkins researchers lead a nationwide effort to make a bionic arm that wires directly into the brain to let amputees regain motor control—and feeling

Final Thoughts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

The last interview with the late Sir Arthur in a Sri Lankan hospital in January found the famed author still entranced with terraforming planets, space elevators, and the search for extraterrestrials

Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Treasure-Diving Days

Audio Transcript: Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

Random Nanostructure Boosts Thermoelectric Power

Efficiency increase opens the door to many new applications for thermoelectric converters

Fly, Robot Fly

Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, this micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly

Environmental Health and Hurricane Katrina

Examining Hurricane Katrina's toxic brew

Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Thermoelectric Generator

Lonnie Johnson has moved on from high-powered squirt guns to a chip that converts heat from the sun—or anything else—into electricity

Q & A With: Actel CEO John East

Actel CEO John East explains how low-power chips can save the world

Carbon Capture Starts From Coal Plant, Advances in Lab

Two research groups come up with super carbon-capturing materials

Water Ship Up: Firm Gets $250 Million to Make Oceangoing Desalination Vessels.

Former Enron exec in charge

The Lady and the li-ion

Laptops desperately need a better lithium-ion battery. Boston-Power's Christina Lampe-Onnerud says she's got it

Wind Power in Paradise

How an international team of engineers brought wind power to the Galápagos Islands

When the Wind Blows in the Galápagos

How an ambitious wind-power project is helping protect one of the most exquisitely beautiful places on Earth

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Eye Candy

This candy cane-studded satellite is the newest element in the U.S. Global Positioning System

Electronic Noses Sniff Success

E-noses will soon be ubiquitous, thanks to printed organic semiconductors

Behold the Flying Robots

Slideshow: Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, this micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly

Ash Nehru: Everything Is Illuminated

Dream Jobs 2008