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Researchers Develop High-Performance, Clean Solid Rocket Propellant

A Purdue-related startup is developing a new rocket fuel formulation that could make rockets used in military and space applications travel further, carry greater payloads,...

Army Explores 3-D Printing's Future Applications

A soldier heads back to camp, grabs a power bar and unloads his gear. The power bar, which was "printed" minutes earlier, contains all the nutrients his body currently needs, according to...

Magna’s CTO Talks Innovation and Disruption

Swamy Kotagiri, Magna International’s Chief Technology Officer, will discuss how to foster an innovative organizational culture during a Leadership Summit roundtable, April 4 at the SAE WCX17...

Focus for 2017: Cyber, Connected-Car, EV Charging, Vehicle Autonomy

Our new section, SAE Standards News, aims to update readers on the extensive activity in the SAE Global Ground Vehicle Standards development arena, by more than 800 ground...

Application Lifecycle Management Module

As part of Arena Solutions’ (Foster City, CA) 2016 Fall Release, Arena Verify adds requirements and defect management to the company’s product offering. These capabilities result in what the company...

Mid-Air Haptics Evaluation and Prototyping

Ultrahaptics’ (Bristol, England) development platform allows companies looking to evolve innovative control solutions a route to evaluate and appreciate the benefits of gesture controls enhanced by...

Integrated Accelerometer/gyro Combo Series

The fully integrated ADXC150x series of inertial combo sensors from Analog Devices, Inc. (Norwood, MA) brings together reliability and accuracy with shock and vibration immunity at a reduced...

SAE Is Working with Euro JV on Fast-Charging Network

SAE International is working with the joint-venture initiative looking to deploy a high-powered DC fast-charging network for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) covering long-distance travel...

Intel Inside the Cloud-Based Data Future

Kathy Winters has been re-introducing herself in auto industry circles lately. Last summer, the well-known Delphi engineering executive joined Intel as General Manager of the Automated Driving...

Inside The Heart Of The World's Largest Flying Observatory, SOFIA

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is the largest airborne observatory in the world, capable of making observations that are impossible for even the...

Design Your Own Drone Kit

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed an interactive system for users to design their own custom drones. The research team's computational approach allows...

Automotive-Qualified Chipset for V2X

Autotalks’ (Kfar Netter, Israel) next-generation V2X devices embed a mobility-optimized modem, support dual-antenna with optimal and flexible RX/TX (receiver/transmitter) diversity, perform line-rate...

Automotive Display Driver Integrated Circuit

Designed for the automotive market, Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, CA) offers a new R6A354 display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) solution. According to company claims, the ClearView R6A354 is the...

System Simulation Software

SimulationX (3.8) from ESI Group (Farmington Hills, MI) is the latest version of the software platform for dynamic multiphysics system simulation, customizable to the specific needs of diverse industries. The...

Automotive Relays and Sockets

CIT Relay & Switch (Minneapolis, MN), a division of Circuit Interruption Technology, Inc., offers automotive relays from low current up to a highest switching capacity of 80 amps with voltages ranging from...

Sensor System Predicts Heart Failure Events

A suite of sensors can predict heart failure events by detecting when a patient's condition is worsening. Researchers uploaded software to patients’ implanted defibrillators. The software...

Sensor Suit Makes Home Monitoring of Patients with Stroke Possible

A suit fitted with 41 sensors makes it possible to accurately image and analyze the movements of stroke patients. The suit contains the infrastructure necessary to store,...

Noninvasive Method Determines Severity of Heart Failure

Researchers have developed a patient-friendly method to determine the severity of heart failure. The quick, noninvasive method is cost-effective and can be performed at the hospital...

Electrode Implants Offers New Hope for Paralysis Patients

Patients with spinal cord injuries might one day regain use of paralyzed arms and legs thanks to research that demonstrates how limbs can be controlled via a tiny array of implanted...

Gold Electrodes Show Promise for Wearable Electronics

A research team has developed a way to build safe, nontoxic gold wires onto flexible, thin plastic film. Their demonstration potentially clears the path for a host of wearable electronic...

High-Performance Battery Made from Household Chemicals & Junkyard Scrap

Each year the U.S. produces hundreds of millions of tons of metal scrap. A Vanderbilt University research team used scraps of steel and brass - two of the most commonly...

London Moves Toward Green Buses in Effort to Cut Pollution

London Mayor Sadiq Khan unveiled the world’s first double-decker hydrogen bus at the end of November as part of a commitment to phase out purchase of new pure diesel buses in the...

Four-Channel Decoder for Automotive Around-View Systems

Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, CA) offers a four-channel analog video decoder with MIPI-CSI2 output interface that supports the latest generation of system-on-a-chip (SOCs) and application...

3D-Printed Dog Nose Sniffs Out Explosives

Researchers have looked to one of nature's best chemical detectors - the dog - to help make today's chemical detection devices better at sniffing out explosives and other contraband materials. Matt...

"Space Poop Challenge": NASA Offering $30K for a System to Collect Human Waste in Space

Astronaut Richard Mastracchio discusses the importance of a crowdsourced innovation competition hosted by Herox and NASA. The winner of the challenge, which...

4D Imaging Captures Patients' Risk of Stroke

Atrial fibrillation, the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia, affects 33.5 million people worldwide. The slow, sluggish blood flow caused by atrial fibrillation can lead to blood clots, which then...

Researchers Develop 'Strength Test' for Platelets

By squeezing two protein dots together, biomedical engineers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a microfluidic testing ground for platelet strength. The...

Mobile Device Detects Irregular Heartbeat

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a mobile app and thumb-size device that detects an irregular heartbeat known as arrhythmia. The technology, suitable for pre- and post-surgery...

Advanced Imaging Reveals Fetal Brain Activity

A new approach from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, images functional activity in the brains of individual fetuses. The technique allows a better look at how functional networks within...