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  1. Tech

    Golden waves make stretchy microcircuits

    Microscale wires with stretchy, wiggly shapes may prove useful for sensors and other electronic gadgets embedded in pliable or elastic items such as clothing or living tissue.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Humans

    Top of the Top 40: Search tool for a cancer cure places first in national science competition

    Herbert Mason Hedberg, the 2004 winner of the Intel Science Talent Search, and 39 other students have received recognition and scholarships for their innovations in science, mathematics, and engineering.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Tech

    Iron Power: Eking more juice from batteries

    By creating an extremely thin layer of an unusually electron-hungry form of iron, chemists have made a prototype rechargeable battery electrode that may lead to improved metal hydride batteries.