gears from scratch
Plastic brings novelty to design and challenges to manufacturing.

the engineered course of treatment
Use of nanoscale devices is helping to revolutionize medical treatment and research.

pushing productivity
Computer technology has a hand in cutting costs and raising profits.

basic drives
Imagine an economy in which energy is taken from a range of sources and delivered in only a couple of convenient forms. These people do.

heat out of small packages
Compact cooling devices are taking shape to deal with the next generation of ever-hotter computer chips.

preaching to the converted
A sylvan source—200 tons of wood a day—is helping to fuel a Green Mountain gasifier.

making full speed
Remanufacturing gives an old vessel a new mission.

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