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This Week in Engineering - International Space Station might be abandoned; faster space communication via lasers; smartphone network helps commuters; painting Manhattan roofs white for energy efficiency; computer chips modeled after brains; and a new fishing technique invented by dolphins.

Coins with QR codes; robot swarms; ATM with a lie detector; reusable European space capsule; solar-powered tunnel for trains; and China to build world’s largest radio telescope.

Aircraft design based on dinosaurs; plug-in hybrid Popemobile; a self-propelled endoscopy device; the disabled drive with one hand; a new alloy converts heat into electricity; and Australia plans for a plasma rocket.

This Week in Engineering - A boat made of trash; shadow Internet in a suitcase; artificial heart without a beat; edible RFID chips; tiny particle accelerators for safer nuclear power; and handheld conveyor picks up .

This Week in Engineering - Shark-repelling fish hooks; touch-screen steering wheel; amphibious ice cream truck; paraplegic college grad lands a job as a bionic leg tester; Chinese satellite leaves lunar orbit; and nightshirt that monitors your sleep.

This Week in Engineering - Brains grown in Petri Dish; DNA computer calculates square roots; record setting jet pack flight; streaming space goggles; smarttown in Japan; green UPS trucks.

This Week in Engineering - Solar-powered purse; combat monocles; screenless touch screens; Bernoulli’s principle lets robots scale walls; robot explores pyramid; and a European space shuttle.

This Week in Engineering - Virgin Galactic’s first “feathered” flight; acoustic squirrel-detectors; physicists improve atomic clocks; a fabric that turns into concrete; a mummy with heart disease; and human-powered quadcopter.

This Week in Engineering - Sustainable energy from whiskey stills; one-way mirrors for sound; mass production of 3D transistors; robot vs. pirate; laser analysis of hair; and fire ants behave like fabric.

This Week in Engineering – Cargo zeppelins; flexible e-paper; RFID chips in hotel towels; general relativity is proven correct; Amazon CEO invests in fusion power; and mind-controlled cat ears.

This Week in Engineering – A man-made floating golf course; nanotubes improve television; a humanoid robot catches two balls simultaneously; heart plungers for CPR; military drones squirt tracking goo; and SETI suspended.

This Week in Engineering – DaVinci surgical robot laces a football; Libyan rebels hijack a disabled cell phone network; the ISS simulates a Mars mission; computers with immune systems; iPhones log your position; and lasers replace spark plugs.

This Week in Engineering – Drinkable water distilled from diesel exhaust; quantum teleportation of light waves; rail guns are awesome; tanker ships save fuel by flying kites; an RC car runs on soda can tabs; and Wi-Fi/GPS on asthma inhalers.

This Week in Engineering – An artificial leaf; magma for boosting geothermal energy; an undersea cable from Europe to Africa; setting boats on fire with lasers; tracking zebras by stripes; and scanning yourself into a figurine.

This Week in Engineering – Extinguishing fires with electricity; robot locomotion inspired by worms; an implanted neural computer interface operates over 1000 days; snails in space; and quadrocopters that play tennis.