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PC Magazine February 14, 2007 Molly Brown	Find Your Way: Gyroscopes and Improved Magnetic Sensors Gyroscopes and magnets join GPS chips in mobile devices of every stripe.
CIO July 15, 2003 John Edwards	Sensitive Sensors Get those gigs. The State University of New York at Buffalo's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has developed sensors that could boost hard drive capacity by a factor of 1,000 -- without also driving up price.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Shape key to strong sensors Researchers have found a possible explanation for why a pair of semiconducting compounds -- mixes of silver and selenium or tellurium -- are strong magnetic sensors over a wide range of magnetic field strengths.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Michael Dumiak	Magnetic Field Sensors Could Help Halt Runway Crashes European engineers harness Earth's magnetic field to improve airport safety.
Technology Research News October 17, 2005	Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives.
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 Tekla S. Perry	Navigating the Great Indoors The smartphone industry is gearing up to get you around when out of sight of GPS satellites
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Charles Q. Choi	Nanomagnets to the Rescue If, as seems possible, magnetic nanocomposites can be manufactured directly on chips, engineers could design computers that are smaller and, equally important, cooler than anything available today.
National Defense October 2006 Grace Jean	Module Monitors Movements in High-Interference Areas Tracking soldiers and first responders in global positioning system-denied environments, such as urban buildings and subterranean tunnels, may now be possible thanks to a new technology that uses a range of sensors that are impervious to magnetic interference.
CIO August 25, 2014 Mike Gualtieri	How Sensors Can Add Zing to Your Apps The addition of sensor data can turn boring applications into exciting ones that impress your customers, a Forrester analyst says.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Spin material handles heat Researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have doped, or mixed the semiconductor zinc oxide with the metal manganese to make a ferromagnetic semiconductor material that retains its magnetic properties at temperatures as high as 177 degrees Celsius.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Bleier & Freund	Earthquake Alarm Impending earthquakes have been sending us warning signals -- and people are finally starting to listen.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Laser pulses could speed memory Researchers from the Research Institute for Materials in the Netherlands and Siemens AG in Germany have found a way to switch a magnetic bit more quickly. The potential payoff is faster computer memory.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Eric Smalley	Magnetic memory makes logic Magnetic memory will soon put an end to the daily annoyance of waiting while your computer boots up from its hard disk. These chips that hold data when the power is off might also be capable of a lot more. Adding a few extra wires to each memory cell could turn the chips into efficient computer processors.
Chemistry World April 30, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Chemical compass clue to migration mystery Trying to identify the mysterious innate compass that many animals use to navigate the globe, chemists at the University of Oxford, UK, have shown for the first time that the Earth's magnetic field can influence the outcome of a chemical reaction.
CIO April 26, 2012 Agam Shah	Intel Researchers Plot a Smarter, Personalized Cloud Intel researchers hope to combine sensors and cloud to deliver more accurate weather, air quality information
The Motley Fool March 13, 2007 Dan Bloom	Will Image Sensors Continue to Light Micron? Image sensor growth is slowing, and it looks like the competition is getting stiffer. Investors beware.
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al.	Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage
National Defense September 2010 Grace V. Jean	Scientists Say They Are Closer Than Ever to Predicting Earthquakes Researchers have discovered that there are warning signs that can be detected in the weeks and hours prior to temblors.
Geotimes June 2007 Kathryn Hansen	So, When Did Earth Become Attractive? Ever since Earth's protective field was discovered in 1958, scientists have been wondering when did the planet grow up and become attractive?
Technology Research News April 21, 2004	Magnets Align Nanotubes in Resin Carbon nanotubes have great potential as components of new materials but aligning the tiny tubes can be tricky. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University have developed a way to orient the nanotubes in a polymer mix using a magnetic field.
Chemistry World July 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Magnetic Sponge Can Squeeze Itself Out Researchers in Japan and Singapore have created a sponge that can wring itself out upon application of a magnetic field.
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Supercomputer Models Earth's Magnetic Field A team of researchers has made a step toward modeling the Earth's chaotic magnetic field behavior using one of the largest supercomputers on the planet to run the most realistic model yet.
Food Engineering June 4, 2007	Not Your Mama's Sensor More rugged, adaptable and reliable sensors are being deployed in industrial automation. And the fact they're taken for granted attests to how well they perform.
Chemistry World November 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Magnetic Field Detectors for Less Than a Penny Cheap electronic components industrially manufactured in their millions every year are also smart materials that can sense magnetic fields without any external power supply, UK scientists have discovered.
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	See-through magnets hang tough Researchers from the Independent University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Zaragoza in Spain have found a way to form transparent, durable, lightweight magnets that maintain their magnetism in magnetic fields and high temperatures.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda	Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Hadjipanayis & Gabay	The Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets Nanotechnology could make rare earth magnets even stronger.
IndustryWeek April 21, 2010 Peter Alpern	The Dawn of the Digital Plant Like the evolution of the cell phone, sensing technologies have grown smarter through embedded software, allowing manufacturers to achieve greater plant visibility.
Popular Mechanics March 2003 Paul Eisenstein	World's Most Powerful Magnet The "magnetar," or magnetic neutron star known as Soft Gamma Repeater 1806-20, is the most powerful known magnetic object in the universe. While it's unlikely anything man-made will ever come close to the power of a magnetar, it's not for lack of trying.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John Keller	Harris RF Designers Expand Into Networked Sensors Applications Harris' RF Communications Division is making a strategic expansion into networked sensors applications to augment their state-of-the-art military radios that operate securely in bands ranging from HF to satellite communications.
Chemistry World August 2006 David Walt	Comment: Common Sense for Sensors Designing sensors for manufacturability must be performed at the outset rather than as an afterthought. Only when we develop such reproducible sensors will they become pervasive tools for improving our quality of life.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Ship Logs Record Earth's Magnetism New information gleaned from old ships' logs is now leading to a better understanding of the magnetic field's past strength, which is turning out to be more erratic than some scientists previously thought.
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 Ted Smalley Bowen	Wires make wireless strain gauge Researchers at Keio University in Japan have developed peak strain and displacement building sensors that do not require a constant power source, and that can be read using a wireless device. The sensors are designed to be embedded in concrete and fire-protection coatings.