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NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
Most of us cannot comprehend the task of building something to withstand temperatures over 4,000 °F—but NASA can. The space shuttles endured such temperatures when...
NASA Spinoff: Software
NASA Technology
Virtually all of Chris Grasso’s academic and professional career has been built on NASA technology. “I’ve been working with NASA since college,” he says.
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
In the beginning, safety trumped comfort in spacecraft designs for human space travel. Mihriban Whitmore, a manager in the Human Research Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center,...
NASA Spinoff: Software
NASA Technology
The 19th century mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, the astronomer par excellence of his day, called mathematics “the queen of the sciences.” If Gauss were alive now, he...
NASA Spinoff: Materials
NASA Technology
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s—a satelloon?
NASA Spinoff: Software
NASA Technology
Scientists at NASA not only focus on advancing space exploration; they study what is happening in the Earth’s atmosphere as well. The Global Climate Modeling program at...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
When an aircraft experiences catastrophic failure, it’s not difficult to tell that something has gone wrong. But even if an airplane reaches its destination without an...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Technology
One of the hottest solar energy plants in the world was developed with engineering expertise derived from one of the hottest space technologies ever engineered: the Space Shuttle...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Technology
On May 11, 2013, two astronauts emerged from the interior of the International Space Station (ISS) and worked their way toward the far end of spacecraft. Over the next 5½...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
From the time he was a Boy Scout, Gihan Amarasiriwardena had a fascination with performance materials. While growing up in the northeastern United States, he experienced the...
Articles: Information Technology
NASA Technology
Objects that orbit the Earth, such as the International Space Station (ISS), provide a unique environment called zero-g, or more correctly, microgravity. All objects in orbit are...
NASA Spinoff: Software
NASA Technology
In December 2008, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center entered into an agreement with the Department of Defense and the Van Braun Center for Space Innovation to develop the...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Technology
On July 21, 2011, the Space Shuttle Atlantis, having successfully completed a 13-day mission to ferry supplies and spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS), touched down on...
Articles: Test & Measurement
NASA Technology
Whether you wanted to know how certain insulation would work on a Mars-bound spacecraft or on an Earth-based refrigerator, you would want to test its performance in the very...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
We have always wondered: Is there other life out there? Are there other planets like our own, orbiting other stars like our Sun? In the early 1990s, astronomers began to...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
Is there—or was there ever—life on Mars? In August 2012 NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on the surface of Mars in an attempt to answer what has become one of...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
James M. Patton Jr. completed a whopping 8,000 spin turns throughout his career at NASA. As a research pilot at Langley Research Center, Patton and his team—which consisted...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA Technology
Let’s say you are an academic researcher who needs to collect data over a long period of time, on a site hundreds of miles from your base of operation. You set up a variety...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
Comets are beautiful, and apparently it’s a youthful kind of beauty, because they look about the same from the time they were born. Often referred to as dirty snowballs, they’re...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
NASA Technology
It was Henry Ford who said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” Following such an adage, it’s safe to say...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA Technology
Surrounded by electronics and hovering over a work bench in the Data Acquisition and Control Systems (DACS) Laboratory, Scott Jensen startles when he hears the phone ring....
NASA Spinoff: Imaging
NASA Technology
In a world that’s increasingly interconnected, the effects of even smaller-scale natural disasters or other emergencies are often felt far and wide. Not all volcanic...
Articles: Aerospace
I recently had the chance to spend a day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston with the ten winners of the Speed2Design contest sponsored by Littelfuse, a Chicago-based circuit protection company. The...
Videos: Photonics/Optics
Highly valued by the electronics industry, vanadium dioxide is an insulator at low temperatures but abruptly becomes a conductor at 67 degrees Celsius. This temperature-driven phase...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
After text messaging 'O Canada' using a chemical signal from evaporated vodka, York University researchers claim their simple text messaging system can be used where conventional wireless...
Videos: Aerospace
Working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and world-renowned origami expert Robert Lang, a team of Brigham Young University (BYU) mechanical engineering students and faculty...
Videos: Aerospace
NASA is looking at a broad range of ideas and techniques as the agency further refines its mission to find and redirect an asteroid to a stable orbit near the...
Industry News: Medical
December 2013 Month-End Industry News
Happy New Year! Here is the latest batch of news from the medical products community. Please click the link for more.
INSIDER: Medical
Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury
A team of scientists from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and the University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior using a neural prosthesis in a rat model of brain injury. Ultimately, the team hopes to develop a device that rapidly and substantially improves function...
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Ask the Expert
Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
In collaboration with the Fort Wayne Metals Engineering team, Eric Dietsch focuses on supporting customers with material recommendations, product development, and education. Eric is available to help you and your company with any Nitinol-related questions or needs that you may have.
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.