Materials and Assembly: Adept Technology will collaborate with the U.K.'s Prosurgics Ltd. to develop robots to perform image-guided and navigated neurological and soft tissue surgery.

"Federal Group Lists R&D Priorities, "President's Panel Urges More for Math" and "Reactor-Safety Teams Study Human Factors" are among the items in this month's News & Notes.

Recently published books for engineers and those interested in engineering.

Engineers at the University of Arizona are studying the navigation systems of bats as the basis for the advanced radar systems they're creating.

The May 2008 Letters column includes letters on the subjects of the "green"-ness of nuclear energy, global warming and the origins of the digital computer.

Venture capitalists have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on a different approach to photovoltaics. Instead of trying to make solar cells more efficient, they have been trying to make them cheaper.

In his May 2008 editorial, John Falcioni looks at the fine line between science fiction and reality.

Want to protect your idea with a patent? You can draft it yourself, but be aware of the risks.

Those fountains were beautiful, but they were also psychological warfare.

Advanced technology changes the rules and helps enforce them, too.

They might be able to slash power consumption with a single visit, but can these efficiency experts dodge the budget ax?

Engineers call upon FEA to design equipment built to withstand the rigors of life in the ocean.

An assessment of a pending Congressional bill by the Environmental Protection Agency was released with little fanfare this spring. The results of the assessment were anything but bad.

Potentially radical advances in gas turbines came in all shapes and sizes in 2007.

The "Time Engineers" computer game, Ch 6.0 and GrafiCalc Expert 2008 digital prototyping software are among the items covered this month in Software Exchange.

Adustable ball lock pins, a miniature accelerometer and flexible hosing are among the New Products featured in this month's issue.