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This Week in Engineering - Do-it-yourself electron microscope; RC clouds bring shade to the desert; a shoulder-mounted telepresence robot; testing a Martian spacesuit in Antarctica; robot seagulls; and 3D fog displays.

This Week in Engineering - New Horizons space probe passes Uranus en route to Pluto; a refueling station for satellites; a brain scanner for awake and moving lab animals; military uniforms equipped with solar panels; a polar-mounted laser to zap space garbage; and a shower radio powered by water pressure.

This Week in Engineering - Stretchy electronics for cardiac surgery; build your own cyborg cockroach; engineering students create a padlock-solver; a new termite fishing technique invented by chimps; robots with gentle touch; and engineer golfer eliminates handicap

This Week in Engineering - Splitting engine into hot and cold parts; computer controlled by your eyes; auto recall due to spiders; Japanese doll phone; computer solves mazes with memristors; and beer that can be consumed in space

This Week in Engineering – DARPA commissions robot cheetah; fiber-optics give prosthetic limbs a sense of touch; world’s smallest computer; robots run a marathon; smart shirts for athletes; and misuse of nuclear waste.

This Week in Engineering - Hummingbird spy drone; interplanetary internet protocol; pacemaker powered by breathing; Japan to send tweeting robot to the ISS; human skull caps used as cups; and proposed presidential budget funds exascale computing.

This Week in Engineering - Aircraft wings from a 3D printer; fake space mission lands on fake Mars; drunk fish become anti-social; smartphone app for reporting potholes; and TWIE turns one year old!

Robot cockroaches; brakes that store energy; women subjected to objectifying glances do worse at math; water-powered jetpacks go on sale; alternative energy in an air-conditioned greenhouse; and 3D printer creates most complicated Rubik's Cube ever.

This Week in Engineering -- New fuel could cause tequila shortage; hotel rooms on the International Space Station; robot fish; engineer saves his own life; purple gold; and scientists use soap to solve mathematical problems.

This Week in Engineering - NASA needs help finding its satellite; electric rickshaws debut in Japan; cleaning up Chesapeake Bay with oysters; metallic foam makes cargo hulls lighter; Four Loko as an alternative to fossil fuels; and a breakthrough in development of computer memory.

This Week in Engineering - Astronomers search for Galaxy X; brain scans predict video game winners; improving network efficiency by studying fruit flies; predicting when metals under repeated stress will fail; LCD projector controls simple organisms; and California's electricity pricing policies could make or break plug-in hybrid buys.

Shooting pirates with lasers, escalator for firemen, pre-roasting to extend the life of biomass fuel, 3D printer creates a playable flute, Russian drills will soon penetrate Antarctic Lake Vostok, and glass that is tougher than steel.

An unmanned aerial vehicle breaks world records, Chernobyl will soon welcome tourists, robot musicians going on tour, South Korea's electric bus fleet, periodic table etched on a human hair, and an implant that blocks pain.

Rail gun to fire a spacecraft into orbit, IBM computer to compete on Jeopardy, storing memory in atomic nuclei, molten salt used as energy storage, and 3D TV without glasses.

This Week In Engineering - Navy breaks a railgun record, Metrodome roof collapses, Japanese space probe misses Venus, bullet train speed record, SpaceX launches satellite, and laser capable of targeting a single atom.