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Wired November 2002 Richard Martin	The Planet Seekers Giant ground-based telescopes and adaptive optics have brought a new age in astronomy. Now the field's brightest stars are racing to take the first photograph of another world.
Wired February 2004 John Geirland	The Quiet Zone Cell phones, pagers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth -- the wireless revolution is everywhere. Except here, a site in rural West Virginia virtually free of man-made electromagnetic pollution, the perfect place for studying radio waves from space. But it's a tough job keeping the spectrum quiet.
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Mitchell Lazarus	When Spectrum Auctions Fail For some microwave links, cooperation beats competition as a way to share the air
Scientific American August 2005 W. Wayt Gibbs	Cosmic CAT Scan A low-tech radio telescope under construction in western China will use thousands of consumer television antennas and hundreds of cheap personal computers to slice through the fog that shrouded the infant universe.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Ritchie S. King	The Einstein Telescope Planning a bigger, badder gravitational-wave detector
Searcher September 2011 David Mattison	Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases While amateur astronomers continue to play an important role in the field and are supported by numerous clubs, associations, and their peers, I have primarily examined resources originating from government and academic research environments.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Rachel Courtland	Gaia Telescope Will Map the Milky Way The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Alexander Hellemans	A New Twist on Radio Waves Using the angular momentum of light could make one radio channel into two, three, or more. But many wireless experts are skeptical
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Mark Anderson	Planet Hunters Wanted The rate of extrasolar planet discoveries could mount not by building new planet-finding telescopes or satellites, but by marshalling an army of amateur astronomers and enthusiasts along with their personal computers.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al.	Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly.
Scientific American September 2008 Mark Wolverton	Digital Upgrades for a Radio Astronomy Revolution Using more sophisticated computers and electronics will vastly increase the resolution, sensitivity and data capacity of the Very Large Array telescope
Smithsonian October 2006 Robert Irion	The Planet Hunters Never mind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller	Adaptive Optics Blends the Best of Electronic and Optoelectronic Technologies This approach uses deformable mirrors, MEMS, or liquid-crystal technologies to adjust for optical distortion in the atmosphere, which yields a new level of focus and resolution to high-energy lasers, deep-space exploration, and perhaps even eye surgery.
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 Eric Smalley	Nanotubes Tune in Light Carbon nanotubes can act as antennas, but instead of transmitting and receiving radio waves, antennas of their size pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light.
PC Magazine May 17, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Light Up The Sky, ET The search for other Earth-like planets, and extraterrestrial life, is heading in new directions... A small way to detect cancer...
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Roy Rubenstein	Radios Get Smart But can they be trusted to roam the spectrum and not interfere with existing users? Some analysts say it's only a matter of time before cognitive radios get into the commercial arena, because the economics are compelling.
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Bikkannavar & Redding	Software for Optical Systems Spells the End of Blur NASA software that calculates optical aberrations will sharpen images from space and could redefine perfect vision for humans
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames	General Dynamics to build antennas for ALMA radio telescope Defense contractors are helping build the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope that will allow astronomers from around the world see galaxies out to the edge of the universe, and stars and planets in their formative stages.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Steffen Koehler	Advances in hybrid optical packaging enable high-bandwidth photonic RF transmission The challenge in exploiting optical fiber for RF transmission lies in getting the RF signals on and off the fiber without degrading the signals. Advances in optical packaging technology are making improvements to military equipment possible.
Technology Research News April 6, 2005 Eric Smalley	Scheme Reverses Light Pulses Researchers have developed a method for accurately time-reversing electromagnetic pulses, making it possible to receive a light pulse and return a replica of exactly the same size, shape and wavelength.
Scientific American November 7, 2005 Mark Alpert	Red Star Rising Small, cool stars may be hot spots for life
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans	Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications.
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean	Light Source Offers Alternative to Radio Under a Navy contract and with corporate funds, Torrey Pines Logic has developed a tiny transmitter and receiver system utilizing prisms that, when engineered into an attachment that fits eyepieces of optical devices allows users to beam infrared light pulses and, in the process, exchange voice or digital data.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Koch & Prasad	The Universal Handset Software-defined radio will let cellphones speak Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMax, and more.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Anna Bogdanowicz	NASA Planet Hunter to Search Out Other Earths The Kepler satellite, scheduled to launch this month, will spend more than three years hunting for planets that might support life
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Chhavi Sachdev	Infrared headset nixes radiation Many cell-phone users have taken to using hands-free headsets to avoid the microwave radiation the devices emit, but the electrical wires that connect the headsets to the phones can also act as antennas for microwaves. A headset that connects via infrared light sidesteps the radiation problem.
Chemistry World December 2009 Jon Cartright	Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Saswato R. Das	Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations.
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Willie D. Jones	No Place to Hide New through-the-wall radar devices that rely on ultrawideband, a fairly new technology known mainly as a promising high-speed, low-power radio communications transmission technique, are now available to municipalities and law enforcement agencies.
Popular Mechanics February 6, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Sun Stays Sluggish as Weathermen Fight for Anti-Ice Age Funding With a debate over implications on climate change at stake, solar researchers in Canada have been finding new lows in magnetic field outputs from the sun.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Astronomers Need Adaptive Optics for 30-Meter Telescope Space-based telescopes do not have to use adaptive optics to correct for peering through the Earth's atmosphere; the biggest advances in space-telescope technology come from the mirrors, which rely on near-perfect calibration and lightweight materials to catch maximum radiation.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland	Single Blue Planet Seeks Same In 2012, a new exoplanet hunter will look for worlds like our own
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette	Quantum Key Distribution Several companies have focused on bringing one aspect of quantum communications to market, quantum key distribution, used to exchange secret keys that protect data during transmission.
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Light-storing chip charted Storing light, even briefly, was considered impossible until recently. Since scientists have proved it could be done, they've been finding different ways of accomplishing the feat. A proposal for slowing and stopping light in photonic crystal promises to bring these experiments to the chip level.
National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson	Laser Communications to Thwart Jamming, Interception Laser communications, also known as free space opticals, hold the promise of giving the military a means to transmit high amounts of data and voice that is hard to detect and an alternative to traditional radio frequencies.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Saswato R Das	Replacement for Hubble Space Telescope Will Use Copper-based Communications Systems Optical fiber interconnects not yet good enough for James Webb Space Telescope, but SpaceWire standard is.
Popular Mechanics March 22, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	The Best in Armchair Astronomy Some online sites post images from powerful telescopes around the world; others let viewers take control of the scopes.
BusinessWeek December 15, 2003 Catherine Yang	Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age Three technologies will boost the capacity of our airwaves -- and innovation, too
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio	New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to Launch Set to launch on 3 June, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope will explore the universe's most powerful phenomena
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Jean Kumagi	Space Mountain Sitting on a high, arid plateau in the Chilean Andes, a new telescope known as the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) -- the largest submillimeter radio telescope now operating in the southern hemisphere -- officially opened for business in late September
AskMen.com	Earth Calling The U.S. space agency, which two years ago broadcast the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into the cosmos, on Wednesday discussed its latest search strategy for life beyond Earth.
Popular Mechanics December 10, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	What NASA's WISE Space Mapper Will Look for in the Sky Hunting for brown dwarf stars, crashing galaxies, and asteroids.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Stephen Cass	Hardware for Your Software Radio What's going to be the next big thing in wireless technology? One bet is software-defined radio, and thanks to a piece of hardware called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, you can get right to the bleeding edge today.
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 Schow et al.	Get on the Optical Bus IBM's light-powered links overcome the greatest speed bump in supercomputing: interconnect bandwidth
Scientific American December 2005 W. Wayt Gibbs	Breaking the Mold As the glass cools on his latest giant mirror, Roger Angel keeps pushing telescope design. His next one might even find Earth-like planets around other stars
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Eric Smalley	Chaotic lasers lock messages Researchers from Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Japan have found a way for two people in different locations to work out a cryptographic key using the signal from the rapidly and randomly fluctuating light signal of a chaotic laser.
Home Toys June 2003 John Hansen	The Future for Radios is Digital In coming months, AM/FM radio listeners who would like to enjoy higher quality sound will not have to sign up for satellite radio subscriptions or install considerably more expensive radio receivers to relive the sweet sounds of last week's Nora Jones concert on the drive to work.