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Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

What SubT means for the future of autonomous robots

The X-Ray Tech That Reveals Chip Designs

No trade secret or hardware trojan can hide from ptychographic X-ray laminography

Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

The doughty Defender becomes an elite EV

Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

His pivot from defense helped a tiny tuning-fork prevent SUV rollovers and plane crashes

Meet the Lunar Gateway’s Robot Caretakers

With people seldom on board, the new space station will rely on autonomy

5 Ways the Chip Shortage Is Rewiring Tech

Broken supply chains prompt companies to redesign products

Ethiopian Dam Generates Power, but What’s Next?

The megaproject comes online, but will it fulfill its grand promise?

Robots Get Some Inspiration From the Moai Statues of Easter Island

They can move an object bearing a fraction of its weight

A Roomba for Rivers

Aquatic robotic cleaners, practical fusion, and more in this month’s Big Picture

COVID: Excess Mortalities Two Years Later

The death toll is increasingly comparable to that of the 1918–1920 flu

The Chain Reaction That Propels Civilization

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Did J.J. Thomson Discover the Electron?

Despite Thomson’s 1897 announcement of subatomic “corpuscles,” he wasn’t the only one hunting for the electron

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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May 2022 Issue

What SubT means for the future of autonomous robots

No trade secret or hardware trojan can hide from ptychographic X-ray laminography

The doughty Defender becomes an elite EV

His pivot from defense helped a tiny tuning-fork prevent SUV rollovers and plane crashes

With people seldom on board, the new space station will rely on autonomy

Broken supply chains prompt companies to redesign products

The megaproject comes online, but will it fulfill its grand promise?

They can move an object bearing a fraction of its weight

Aquatic robotic cleaners, practical fusion, and more in this month’s Big Picture

The death toll is increasingly comparable to that of the 1918–1920 flu

What do living cells, Britain’s canals, and deep learning have in common?

Despite Thomson’s 1897 announcement of subatomic “corpuscles,” he wasn’t the only one hunting for the electron

Build a modern system for less than $100

It’s innovation expert helps students turn research results into revenue

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