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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center invites companies to license this dead-end welding device for use in the welding of tubing. This technology solves the problem of unacceptable welds in dead-end...
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA Glenn researchers have developed a spoked drive mechanism for robots and other vehicles that is capable of two rotational modes. This robust ground traction (drive) assembly for remotely controlled vehicles...
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Videos: Automotive
Due to recent automotive electrification such as ADAS and Stop-Start Systems, maximizing power efficiency is critical for automotive design consideration. This webcast explains an overview of power...
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News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Growth of lightweight vehicle body and closure panel applications in the coming years, and particularly greater use of aluminum, is driving increased use of...
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News: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Underground Radar Sheds Light on Post-Katrina Damage
An innovative underground radar technology developed at Louisiana Tech University is helping the City of Slidell in south Louisiana to identify and document underground infrastructure damage that had gone undetected in the months and years following Hurricane Katrina.
Lighting
Researchers from KU Leuven in Belgium, the University of Strasbourg, and CNRS have discovered a new phosphor that could make next-generation fluorescent and LED lighting even cheaper and more...
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Nanotechnology
A collaboration of researchers from Kumamoto, Yamaguchi, and Osaka Universities in Japan have discovered a new method of drastically changing the color and fluorescence of a particular compound using only...
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Manufacturing & Prototyping
A research group led by Professor Shirase Keiichi of the Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering has developed a prototype machine tool that can manufacture metal components and operates like a 3D...
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Energy
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a possible secret to dramatically boosting the efficiency of perovskite solar cells hidden in the nanoscale...
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Photonics/Optics
Curved lenses, like those in cameras or telescopes, are stacked in order to reduce distortions and resolve a clear image. That's why high-power microscopes are so big and telephoto lenses so long.
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Question of the Week
Would you ride in an autonomous taxi?
This month, Singapore unveiled the world's first self-driving taxis. Select passengers hailed free rides last Thursday through their smartphones. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, nuTonomy, an automonomous vehicle...
Videos: Materials
Engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center tested a composite structure, known as the 'Hershey Bar' test article, by exposing it to increasing weight loads. The purpose of the...
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Videos: Test & Measurement
The developing world is awash in substandard or falsified medications, which can directly harm users or deprive them of needed treatment. With internet sales of medications on the rise, people...
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INSIDER: Motion Control
Engineers at Ben-Gurion University have developed the first wave-like robot powered by a single actuator with no internal straight spine. The Single Actuator Wave-Like Robot (SAW)...
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Videos: Materials
During a heart attack, clots or narrowed arteries block blood flow, harming or killing cells within the tissue. The damage doesn't end after the pain subsides. Instead, the heart's walls...
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INSIDER: Aerospace
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a lattice structure capable of absorbing a wide range of vibrations while also being useful as a load-bearing component in propellers, rotors, and...
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
NASA’s bright pink Pressure-Sensitive Paint (PSP) is helping to test new aircraft designs. A thin coat of PSP is sprayed onto the model that will be tested in the wind tunnel and...
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INSIDER: Materials
The newest passenger jets are made primarily from advanced composite materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic — extremely light, durable materials. But composite...
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News: Defense
After many years of flat-lining in the supply of new commercial jet engines—with improved models, but with designs dating back to the late 1990s, relying on a continuous path of...
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Editorial: Regulations/Standards
Bad Gas?
It’s often the case with proverbs that many are of uncertain derivation. That’s true of one of my go-to favorites: “May you live in interesting times.”
INSIDER: Materials
Researchers Say Wood Windows Outshine Glass
In a University of Maryland study, researchers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering have demonstrated that windows made of transparent wood provide more consistent natural lighting and better energy efficiency than glass.
Videos: Test & Measurement
The Arctic sea ice pack is nearing its annual minimum extent, which is projected to be one of the lowest since satellite observations began. Using satellite data and airborne observations, NASA...
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Videos: Medical
Researchers at The Ohio State University have reached a milestone in the development of wearable electronics - they are able to embroider antennas and circuits into fabric with 0.1 mm precision, which is...
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Videos: RF & Microwave Electronics
Recent years have seen a lot of work in moving distributed MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output), which is a method for multiplying the capacity of a radio link using multiple transmit and receive antennas...
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INSIDER: Medical
New MRI Technology Eliminates Longtime Limits
A new technology harnesses imperfections that typically compromise MRI exams to create images resolved enough to enable consistent diagnoses across populations for the first time. Traditional MRI radio waves “light up” some parts of a sample better than others, with imperfections blacking out areas...
INSIDER: Materials
Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Lab have created a material that is highly breathable, yet protective from biological agents. This material is the...
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INSIDER: Imaging
A neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Health System is the first to use CaptiView – a microscope image injection system from Leica Microsystems that overlays critical virtual reality imaging...
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INSIDER: Medical
MIT engineers developed a microfluidic device that replicates the neuromuscular junction — the vital connection where nerve meets muscle. The device, about the size of a U.S. quarter,...
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Videos: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology and ExxonMobil has demonstrated a new carbon-based molecular sieve membrane that could dramatically reduce the energy required to...
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Ask the Expert

John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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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.