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Mar 20, 2012 Metamaterials Will Change Optics DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University engineers believe that continued advances in creating ever-more exotic and sophisticated man-made materials will greatly improve their ability to control light at will. FULL STORY	Feb 29, 2012 Exotic Material Boosts Electromagnetism Safely DURHAM, N.C. – By using exotic man-made materials, scientists from Duke University and Boston College believe they can greatly enhance the forces of electromagnetism (EM), one of the four fundamental... FULL STORY
Nov 14, 2011 Tracking Dragonflies on the Wing Duke University electrical engineers have developed a wirelessly powered telemetry system that is light and powerful enough to allow scientists to study the intricate neurological activity of... FULL STORY	Oct 07, 2011 Mine Detection Software Identifies Cancer Cells Medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated that software developed by a Duke University electrical engineer for finding and recognizing undersea mines can help doctors... FULL STORY
Aug 11, 2011 Effortless Sailing with Fluid Flow Cloak DURHAM, N.C. – Duke engineers have already shown that they can “cloak” light and sound, making objects invisible -- now, they have demonstrated the theoretical ability to significantly increase the... FULL STORY	Aug 01, 2011 Manipulating Light at Will DURHAM, N.C. – Duke electrical engineers have developed a man-made material that they say literally allows them to manipulate light at will. FULL STORY
Jul 27, 2011 A Fractal Design Approach to Ease Verification In 1994, a small glitch was uncovered in a floating point unit in the Pentium P5 microprocessor. Unfortunately, it wasn’t detected until after it had been installed in countless computers, which... FULL STORY	Jun 30, 2011 WiFi "Napping" Doubles Phone Battery Life DURHAM, N.C. – A Duke University graduate student has found ways to double the battery life of mobile devices – such as smartphones or laptop computers – by making changes to WiFi technology. Wifi is... FULL STORY
Jun 30, 2011 Acoustical Cloaking Achieved After already showing that simple man-made materials can be employed as invisibility cloaks or used to facilitate wireless power transmission, Duke University engineers have now demonstrated that... FULL STORY	Jun 29, 2011 New Smartphone App Automatically Tags Photos DURHAM, N.C. -- So much for tagging photographs with names, locations and activities yourself – a new cell phone application can take care of that for you. The system works by taking advantage of... FULL STORY