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May 2011 Issue

TSMC’s Morris Chang pioneered the $28 billion semiconductor foundry industry, kicking off a revolution in the business of chips

Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today’s silicon standby

Artifacts from the first 2000 years of computing at the Computer History Museum

Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power

Researchers send 26 terabits per second of data with only one laser

Tele-ICU system sets a new benchmark at UMass

Woven into a bandage, an experimental optical fiber could monitor healing

Radar guns and software can spot a brain injury by looking at the way a person walks

Vascular turbine could generate enough power to recharge pacemakers; blood clots a potential problem

Could speed up optical communications and bring them to computer chips

Reassessing California's Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in a post-Fukushima world

Its melting nuclear fuel rods may bring about overdue developments in global power systems

Networks like Facebook are innovative, but inevitable

A third of all workers in U.S. plants will be eligible to retire in the next five years

Until 11 March, nuclear power was ready for a renaissance

Customization is key to Android's popularity--and to some inconsistent user experiences

Beekeeping engineers bring cheap widgets to a 19th-century craft

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