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April 2010 Issue

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April 2010 Issue

Mercedes’s SLS dresses its high technology in a classic design

A Japanese roboticist is building androids to understand humans—starting with himself

A new U.S. court decision gives the government even more rights to use your invention

In Jordan, a particle accelerator struggles to create a photon beam

We don’t know enough about meteoroids

Fiat’s 500 burns the cleanest fossil fuel around

Porsche's Panamera Turbo has everything but an ejection seat

The VW Up Lite hybrid concept car is small, light, and diesel

Ford’s Taurus puts a very big radar in a very small package

Audi's e-Tron shows what active control can do—not just to the engine but the body

BMW used a lot of tricks to squeeze a lot of power out of a small package

Honda's CR-Z gets more oomph per gallon—and doesn't stint on the gallons

Aptera’s 2e is the world’s first electric two-seater on three wheels

The Nissan Leaf is limited only by the range of its battery’s charge

The world's leading introductory textbook on hybrid vehicles gets a timely update

Questions for the originator of the "stepping-stones to Mars" approach

Solid-state devices benefit from better batter and adjustments in cooking time and temperature

Roboticists in Japan and South Korea are designing the household servants of the future

Can a virus use sunlight to split water?

There are lots of reasons to think Intrinsity's hot-rodded ARM processor is powering the iPad, and even some reasons to think Apple has acquired Intrinsity

Magnetic semiconductors could lead to a future generation of computer logic

Multitasking requires more than a new mindset; it needs new words as well

Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns collected in book form

PCBs aren’t so hard to make and needn’t break the bank

Hubble 3D is as close to a space walk as most of us will ever get

The back story

Your next digital camera may adhere to a standard you've never heard of: Micro Four Thirds

Apple has come a long way from its personal-computer origins

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