SciTech

Fresh off the press: download Spring 2006 issue here. Our Spring 2006 Distribution was a big success! Thanks to: Nick Baldasaro, Maria Ligai, Jorge Dorantes, Debra Goldman, Tom Maher, Michael Ross, Evgeny Aleksandrov, Nicole Spooner, and Ian Livingston.

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From its roots over a century ago as the Sibley Journal and the Cornell Civil Engineer, to the 1990s, as a top undergraduate engineering publication in the United States, Cornell Science & Technology has been committed to welcoming new ideas - and with it, new talent. In recent years, SciTech's expansion into the realm of pure and applied sciences has broadened its appeal to undergrads, while keeping focus on the most pressing issues facing academia and society today.

We are Cornell's undergraduate magazine of science and technology, and have won numerous publication awards from the ECMA. SciTech features new ideas, breakthroughs, controversies and people in the world of science and engineering.

We've expanded our issue from 36 pages to 40 pages! Thanks to all our writers, copyeditors, and graphics designers for their hard work!

- Measuring wrinkles, sun damage with software - I tested, firsthand, emerging bioscience technology that applies hard numbers to my skin's health. With two flashes of white-light digital imaging to my face and some sophisticated mathematical algorithms, the system I subjected myself to could calculate all that frightening detail in a few minutes. (Click on link for complete article).

- Scientists work on 'trauma pill' - Suppose you could erase bad memories from your mind. Suppose, as in a recent movie, your brain could be wiped clean of sad and traumatic thoughts. (Click on link for complete article).

- Tokyo to get world's first 'maglev' elevator - TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- The world's first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation will debut as early as 2008, a Tokyo-based company said Tuesday. (Click on link for complete article).

- Robotic hand translates speech into sign language - An 80-centimeter robotic hand that can covert spoken words and simple phrases into sign language has been developed in a town in Fukuoka Prefecture. (Click on link for complete article).

- Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. (Click on link for complete article).

- Sandia researchers to model nano-size battery to be implanted in eye to power artificial retina - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Several researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, led by principal investigator Susan Rempe, are part of a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary team developing a nano-size battery that one day could be implanted in the eye to power an artificial retina. (Click on link for complete article).

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