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turn on the light
Engineers had worked the same way for more than 500 years—until the events of 40 years ago shook things up.

remade from scratch
A military-sponsored project mounts a collaborative effort to reverse engineer legacy parts.

putting it in scale
A new series of algorithms aims to achieve some of the intuitive skills of veteran engineers.

blood ties
An engineering team rethinks the key link in cardiac surgery, the heart-lung machine.

airing out Grand Central
Searching the fluid dynamics of trains and their surroundings.

ready when you are?
A professor in England thinks he has a solution to commuting woes: a personal rapid transit system.

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