Science & Technology Review October 2006

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This months issue has the following articles: (1) Innovative Solutions Reap Rewards--Commentary by George H. Miller; (2) Surveillance on the Fly--An airborne surveillance system can track up to 8,000 moving objects in an area the size of a small city; (3) A Detector Radioactive Particles Can't Evade--An ultrahigh-resolution spectrometer can detect the minute thermal energy deposited by a single gamma ray or neutron; (4) Babel Speeds Communication among Programming Languages--The Babel program allows software applications in different programming languages to communicate quickly; (5) A Gem of a Software Tool--The data-mining software Sapphire allows scientists to analyze enormous data sets generated by diverse applications; (6) Interferometer Improves the Search for Planets--With externally dispersed interferometry, astronomers can use an inexpensive, compact instrument to search for distant planets; (7) Efficiently Changing the Color of Laser Light--Yttrium-calcium-oxyborate crystals p

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