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The Art of Failure 2012

Failure analysts show off the strange stuff they find in their microscopes

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Photo: Khoo Bing Sheng/WinTech Nano-Technology
Fist of Victory: Perhaps foreshadowing the 2012 Olympics, engineers at WinTech Nano-Technology created this 20-micrometer-wide sculpture from copper using focused-ion-beam nanofabrication.
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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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When Waters Rise, Satellites Now Lag

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AMD’s Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip

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