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INSIDER: Aerospace
Airplane winglets reduce drag, which can translate to higher speed or to allow a pilot to throttle back and save fuel. It also helps to reduce wingtip vortices that can be problematic for...
Articles: Energy
Speed is absolutely essential for electric vehicles (EVs). Not speed in terms of acceleration and maximum velocity, but the time it takes to conceive, develop and produce...
News: Aerospace
Airbus has entered into an agreement with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to develop capability in the country’s...
News: Automotive
Aerion Supersonic in Reno, Nevada, and Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix are collaborating on a revolutionary, connected cockpit for the Aerion AS2, regarded...
Blog: Energy
Have you heard of "fatbergs?" Researcher Asha Srinivasan explains how her team is turning masses of fat, oil, and grease into biofuel.
News: Propulsion
The IBUKI-2 (GOSAT-2) greenhouse gas observation satellite co-developed by the Japanese Ministry of Environment, National Institute of Environmental Studies...
News: Unmanned Systems
United States Army pilots directed an optionally-piloted helicopter (OPV) through a series of missions to demonstrate technology developed by Lockheed Martin Corporation...
Videos: Aerospace
Watch as NASA tests a new parachute for landing the Mars 2020 rover on the Red Planet. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation...
Question of the Week: Green Design & Manufacturing
Would You Use Carl Yee’s ‘Disappearing Ink?’
Our second INSIDER story today features a purposefully “lousy ink” – one that slowly fades after being printed. The gradual disappearance of the ink allows the paper to be used again and again.
Read the article, and let us know what you think.
This week's Question: Would You Use Carl...
News: Transportation
High-profile automotive engineer and designer Prof. Gordon Murray is utterly confident of the potential for his company’s latest iStream Superlight manufacturing...
News: Manned Systems
After five years of development and testing, the Canadian Space Agency’s three-satellite RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is awaiting launch with...
News: Automotive
GE Aviation engineers have completed the initial design of the first supersonic engine purpose-built for business jets. GE’s Affinity turbofan engine class integrates...
News: Test & Measurement
Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is taking off in aerospace engineering and systems integration workflows worldwide. Editors in SAE International’s Aerospace Product...
News: Medical
Mindray North America Selects Eastman Medical Polymers to Enhance Patient Monitors
In an effort to improve patient safety and device durability, Mindray has incorporated Eastman’s medical polymers into its current generation of patient monitors. Used in healthcare facilities throughout North America, the Passport Series of bedside monitors, T1...
Road Ready: Power
The Altima sedan is an important product for Nissan, what it calls its “brand ambassador.” Long a solid choice in the mid-size sedan segment, its typically...
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Now Deploying from the ISS: A Harpoon, A Net, and Other Ideas for Cleaning Up Space Debris
Richard Duke spoke with Tech Briefs about the nature of the space-junk problem — and how his team plans to fix it.
News: Power
Qingdao Airlines, a Chinese airline startup based out of Qingdao Liuting International Airport, is the latest airline to received aircraft powered by Pratt &...
News: Propulsion
The AS2 industry team – comprising Aerion in Reno, Nevada; Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, Maryland; GE Aviation in Evendale, Ohio; and Honeywell in Morris Plains,...
Videos: Materials
A new type of tiny, flying robot called a 'FlyCroTug' can both perch and move objects 40 times its weight with the help of powerful winches and two previous inventions – gecko...
News: Automotive
Present day space human space operations are limited to Earth-reliant excursions to the International Space Station (ISS) where – if needed –...
Videos: Medical
Tiny, cell-sized robots could soon be mass-produced for medical monitoring using a new method called “autoperforation” developed at MIT. The microscopic devices,...
INSIDER: Motion Control
An unexpected source recently identified a global Martian dust storm. The source was an actuator, or motor, that powers a lid to a funnel that takes in samples of powdered Martian...
News: Aerospace
The search for ever-lower emission technology for future generations of aircraft engines is actively progressing on both sides of the Atlantic. Tucked away on a modest-size stand at this...
News: Propulsion
The NASA STARC-ABL – or “single-aisle turboelectric aircraft with an aft boundary-layer propulsor” – concept is under consideration as one of the...
News: Connectivity
A new U.S. consumer study published by Intel claims most Americans expect a self-driving future, even if many currently harbor fear and uncertainty about...
News: Electronics & Computers
The choice between water cooling and air cooling for internal-combustion engines was for decades a very real debate in the auto industry, with Volkswagen and Porsche for years...
News: Design
For round 23 of the 2018 NASCAR Cup series championship at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in August, Siemens invited members of the media to attend the race in...
Technology Report: Manned Systems
The Wankel rotary engine has been an ideal choice for many owners and operators of small, propeller-driven aircraft. Compared to conventional...
Videos: Materials
Not only are artificial heart pumps geometrically complex products to 3D print, they also contain magnets. Research on 3D printing with magnets is still in its very...
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.