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November 2010 Issue

Algae could make the perfect renewable fuel

By unrolling tiny carbon tubes, you can produce superthin sheets with truly extraordinary electronic properties

Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage

Open up today’s mobile electronic devices and you’ll likely see the imprint of Sehat Sutardja, the beating heart of Marvell

A little shop in New York City celebrates the glory of the lightbulb in the waning days of incandescence

A new book chronicles the greatest show on Earth—and off it

The new Kindle may be good enough to hold off the horde of tablets coming Amazon's way

Pioneer's new car audio system is about as good as it gets—for about $1600

Geographic information systems and other technologies offer new hope for reducing government health-care fraud

Japanese physicists turn Brownian motion—plus plenty of external energy—into work

Engineers use a rubber stamp to get silicon and compound semiconductors to cooperate

Island engineers to demonstrate next-generation memory in its smallest footprint yet

Japanese media giant has a bold if somewhat self-serving plan to cover the country in optical fiber

PACO-PLUS project develops embodied cognition for robot learning

...and neither is the Republic of Science, says G. Pascal Zachary in his new series for IEEE Spectrum, "The Scientific Estate"

What if Gaussian engineering is clear, simple, and wrong?

Judge this sector not only by its illustrious survivors but also by the many also-rans

Still don’t know what to get for the geek who has everything?

For 3-D portable gaming, Lenovo has the right idea

When your studio is the Internet, you’re your own recording engineer, but Mantis offers a lot of help

If T-shirts can come in 11 colors, why can't headphone amplifiers?

Introducing the world's first modular pocket knife

A Porsche computer mouse that's as fast as it looks

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