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News: Aerospace
Survey: Aerospace Engineers Seek Clarity on Cadmium
A survey of more than two hundred aerospace manufacturing professionals demonstrated a lack of understanding about cadmium, a highly toxic metal that is still being used frequently in the U.S. aerospace industry.
News: Medical
Custom Knees Outperform Standard Implants, Study Shows
Data published in Arthroplasty Today demonstrate that patients treated with customized knee implants had significantly lower adverse event rates and transfusion rates, were significantly less likely to be discharged to a rehabilitation or other high-cost post-acute care facilities, had a lower...
Videos: Electronics & Computers
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a holographic imaging process that depicts the radiation of a Wi-Fi transmitter to generate three-dimensional images...
Question of the Week: Automotive
A new story on TechBriefs.com this week featured an interview with Purdue University's John Cushman. The professor's "ifbattery" system may someday allow drivers to recharge their cars as quickly and easily as...
News: Medical
MW Industries Launches Medical-Focused Company
MW Industries, Rosemont, IL, has launched MW Industries Medical Solutions to help address the specific needs of medical devices and other healthcare products. The newly formed company brings together four MW Industries divisions under one umbrella brand. The business units — Economy Spring,...
Videos: Test & Measurement
Wireless systems for monitoring underground infrastructure - like utility pipelines - are difficult to test in the field, especially during rare and extreme events such...
News: Power
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz unit announced in mid-June that the Mercedes AMG GT R supercar is the winner of the Association of German Engineers’ (VDI) first-ever award for...
News: Electronics & Computers
The CEOs of two century-old German suppliers faced the media together on June 20 to announce a strategic partnership. One, Dr. Stefan Sommer of ZF, famous for its transmissions,...
INSIDER: Materials
A new compressed form of glassy carbon opens up possibilities for applications requiring low weight and high strength — from aerospace parts to football helmets.
Videos: Defense
Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara have demonstrated high-resolution, 3D through-wall imaging of completely unknown areas - using only WiFi signals...
Videos: Test & Measurement
One day, a virtual version of your own heart pumping may help doctors diagnose heart disease and determine the best treatment, without the need of surgical intervention or other invasive...
News: Automotive
Automotive interior components supplier International Automotive Components opened a new regional and global engineering center in Pune, India on June 15.
Videos: Aerospace
Humans have long been shaping Earth's landscape, but now scientists know we can shape our near-space environment as well. A certain type of communications - very low frequency (VLF)...
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
The essence of automotive cybersecurity's current state of capability: It’s possible to thwart most—but not all—cyber incidents.
Videos: Test & Measurement
Binary stars are the only stars scientists can directly gauge, because their orbits around each other reveal their masses. Now, astronomers from the Space Telescope Science...
Videos: Lighting
If electric cars could recharge while driving, concerns about their range would be virtually eliminated - a big step towards making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles....
Videos: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers from MIT's Tangible Media Group have basically created edible origami, in the form of flat sheets of gelatin and starch that, when submerged in water, change into 3D...
Sound-Off: Data Acquisition
There was a time when the R&D powertrain group at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) would log up to 500 GB of data per day. How do you sift through such a large number of files? Anjelica Warren, Product Marketing...
Videos: Energy
Purdue University researcher John Cushman has developed an 'instantly rechargeable,' membrane-less flow battery for electric and hybrid vehicles. The innovation could...
INSIDER: Energy
A new battery system may someday allow drivers to recharge their cars as quickly and easily as filling up a gas tank.
INSIDER: Aerospace
NASA has conducted a series of flights investigating the benefits of twistable, flexible wing flaps to improve flight efficiency. The Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE II) flights...
Medical
Adhesive mechanisms in the natural world, as used by geckos and other animals when they walk upside down on the ceiling, have many advantages. They are strongly adhesive – without...
Medical
Due to its excellent material properties of elasticity, resilience, and electrical and thermal insulation, elastomers have been used in a myriad of applications. They are especially...
News: Information Technology
What’s New on Tech Briefs: Can You Answer Our Readers’ Big Questions?
New web-exclusive stories this month highlight soft robots, bio-printing successes, and opportunities to answer readers' questions.
Videos: Software
A Georgia Tech robot named Shimon is using deep learning and a database of over 5,000 songs - including works Beethoven, the Beatles, and Miles Davis, among others - to...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Harvard University researchers have created a new type of semi-soft robot that can stand and walk around - by using drinking straws and...
News: Defense
The first China-built commercial airliner—the Comac C919—took its maiden flight on May 5, 2017 at Shanghai Pudong International...
News: Defense
Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI), which recently signed a $5.6M agreement with Lockheed Martin to further develop its metaSOLAR product, looks...
Videos: Medical
The human body provides many recognizable landmarks due to the underlying skeletal structure and variations in skin texture, elasticity, and color. Researchers from Saarland...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Brain Implant Enables Safer Drug Delivery
Features: Medical
Built to Adapt: Rethinking Contract Manufacturing for a New Era
Features: Materials
OEM Toll Processing Advances High-Value Products
From the Editor: Medical
From The Editor: Charting the Technologies That Will Shape Medtech in 2026
INSIDER: Medical
Oxygen Scavenger Doubles Biosensor Performance
Features: AR/AI
Engineering for the Future: The Trends Transforming Medtech in 2026
Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.