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ESA Uses Robotic Arm to Test Double Asteroid Landing

ESA has used a robotic arm to simulate a spacecraft's final approach to an asteroid. The laboratory test, which took place recently at the Madrid headquarters of Spain's GMV Innovating...

From 3D Printer to Practice

Conventional 3D printers create objects layer-by-layer from the bottom up, which can be a challenge when printing parts with enclosed electronics and overhanging or protruding features. Such features must be...

Airbus Looks to Expand Military Product Lines

Airbus Defense & Space (Airbus DS) Chief Salesman Antonio Rodriguez Barberan recently said the company’s aim is to be present in most military market segments and to be number one or two...

Clamoring for a Connection

Many of today’s constantly connected consumers balk at spending a few hours without Web access. Commercials airlines are responding by forging links with satellite providers that give flyers the same...

UCLA Researchers Develop New Strong and Lightweight Metal Nanocomposite

A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with a very high...

Mentor Graphics Updates CFD Tool for Improved Productivity

Mentor Graphics recently released the latest version of its general-purpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) FloEFD solution with updated features such as improved mesh handling,...

Heart’s Rhythms Respond to Light

A team of researchers from Stony Brook University and Oxford University uses light to control the electrical waves that regulate the rhythm of the heartbeat. The optogenetics-based method could be used...

Bioengineers Mass-Produce Peel-and-Stick Sensors

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a method that reduces by half the time needed to make flexible, easy-to-remove medical sensors. The "printing press"...

Implantable Device Can Turn Off Pain Signals

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have built implantable wireless devices that trigger — and may block —...

Ultrasound Device Senses Tumor Growth

A new "tricorder" technology developed at Stanford University use microwaves and ultrasound to detect early cancer stages and potentially "hear" growing tumors. Moreover, the researchers believe that their...

‘Nanopyramids’ Prevent Implant Infections

About a million implanted medical devices are infected each year with MRSA and other bacterial species. University of Michigan researchers found that a coating of zinc oxide nanopyramids disrupts...

'Pop-Up' Sensors Support Robotic Surgery

As complex robots replace hand-held scalpels, an increasing number of today's surgeries are being performed from behind a computer console. Researchers at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of...

Time to Get Personal

The race to let drivers personalize vehicles is gaining speed. A range of techniques and technologies are being deployed to let drivers do more to make vehicles as individualized as their consumer environment.

Dr. Catherine A. Conley, Planetary Protection Officer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC

As NASA plans launches to Mars, Europa, and beyond, the agency's Office of Planetary Protection ensures that the environments are shielded against...

Electrospray Thrusters Boost Efficiency, Precision

NASA Technology When NASA thrusters are mentioned, most people imagine something like the breathtaking launch of the Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon. Its five enormous F-1...

DigitalClone Software Predicts, Extends Machine Life

NASA Technology Medical scientists have made great progress in recent years toward understanding how genetic factors play a role in an individual’s susceptibility or resistance to various...

Mars Rover Work Spawns PDF Collaboration Software

NASA Technology Like satellites in orbit, some spinoffs just keep spinning.

Laser Vision Helps Hubble, Package Shippers See Clearly

NASA Technology For more than 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided stunning photos of the universe unequalled in their depth, detail, and distinction. Hubble imagery has been...

Tool Kit Simplifies Development of High-Affinity Molecules

NASA Technology As NASA sets its sights on long-duration missions deeper into the solar system, including a planned mission to Mars, astronauts will need access to health-monitoring...

NODE+ Platform Integrates Sensors with Smartphones

NASA Technology In 2007, when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a call for a sensor that could equip a smartphone with the ability to detect dangerous gases and chemicals, Ames...

Open Source Aircraft Design Software Helps Industry, Hobbyists

NASA Technology The old saying about the inability to build a better mousetrap could also apply to aircraft design tools. For years, the best, and maybe only, way to dream up a...

GPS Sensor Web Helps Forecasters Warn of Monsoon Flash Floods

NASA Technology In the American Southwest and in northwestern Mexico, more than half the annual rainfall often comes in the form of the torrential and unpredictable downpours of the...

Analytic Tool Simplifies Metal Fracture Assessments

NASA Technology When NASA builds a spacecraft, materials engineers at the Agency have the important task of assessing the structural properties of the materials that comprise various hardware,...

Precision Coffeemaker Adapts Brews to Beans, Taste

NASA Technology Technology often takes circuitous paths. A magnetron developed for precision bombing during World War II led to the microwave oven, and a battery-powered drill created for...

Wide Area Thermal Imaging System Brings the Landscape into Focus

NASA Technology Finding a forest fire can be more difficult than some would expect. Seeing smoke in the distance indicates a problem, but determining the exact location where the...

Buildings for Manipulating Magnetism Revolutionize Magnetometers

NASA Technology In a corner of Ames Research Center in California stand a pair of rather unusual buildings, where mere mortals can control magnetic fields.

Hydrogen Detection Tape Saves Time and Lives

NASA Technology From the Apollo missions through the Space Shuttle Program, NASA has relied on liquid hydrogen as a fuel source for the upper stages of its rocket launches. The reason is simple:...