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Videos: Aerospace
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission uses high-quality gravity field mapping of the moon to determine the moon's interior structure. The GRAIL mission has beamed...
Videos: Imaging
This video simulation makes a twister seen recently by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter appear even more dramatic.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
These days, graphene is the rock star of materials science, but it has an Achilles heel – it is exceptionally sensitive to its electrical environment.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at butterflies in an attempt to figure out how they flutter...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Silicon Designs (Issaquah, Washington) has announced its new model 2445 series, a family of single-ended low-noise analog MEMS capacitive accelerometer modules, designed to support a variety of...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Honeywell (Minneapolis, MN) is extending its Linear Hall-effect Sensor Integrated Circuits (IC) product line with the addition of the new SS39ET Series to its SS49E and SS59ET portfolio. Honeywell’s Linear...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Avnet Electronics Marketing (Phoenix, AZ) has introduced the Xilinx Kintex(TM)-7 FPGA Mini-Module Plus Development Kit – a completely customizable development kit for system architects and field programmable gate array...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
MathWorks (Natick, MA) has announced HDL Coder, which automatically generates HDL code from MATLAB, allowing engineers to implement FPGA and ASIC designs from the widely used MATLAB language. MathWorks also announced HDL...
News: Robotics, Automation & Control
Nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, originally developed 30 years ago to lower the cost of geothermal drilling....
News: Medical
A (Texas) Toast to Biomedical Innovation
Texas...home of Johnson Space Center, the NSBRI, good BBQ, and now, for the first time, the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) show. Last week, in Fort Worth, TX, local exhibitors demonstrated evidence of the Lone Star State as an important hotspot for medical device development.
Videos: Green Design & Manufacturing
Addressing a DARPA challenge to create innovative solutions for cleaning contaminated surfaces, a research team at Idaho National Laboratory discovered that gelatin worked well in making a...
Videos: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory have developed the Portable Positron Measurement System (PPMS), an automated, non-destructive inspection system based on positron annihilation, which...
Question of the Week
Will we ever accept computers as human?
Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist, said to more than 3,000 attendees at the South by Southwest Interactive conference last week: "We are a human-machine civilization. Everybody has been enhanced with computer technology," noting how smartphones and other mobile devices and technologies have become a...
Videos: Photonics/Optics
MITRE Corporation's Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Office nurtures programs in technology areas not traditionally part of MITRE's work, in order to apply increased understanding to the practical...
Videos: Aerospace
Autonomous systems can operate with limited, or even without, human control. The military prizes these systems for their ability to perform tasks too dull, dangerous, or dirty for humans. MITRE Corporation...
Videos: Imaging
When weather lowers visibility, planes must fly at greater distances from each other, which causes significant air traffic delays. The MITRE Corporation is helping design the Equivalent Visual Operations system,...
Videos: Communications
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) could one day conduct a wide range of civilian and commercial tasks, but currently can only operate on a restricted basis in civil airspace. The MITRE Corporation is...
News: Materials
Making hydrogen fuel cells practical on a large scale requires them to be more efficient and cost effective, and a research team from the University of Central Florida may have found...
News
Graphene Supercapacitor Holds Promise for Portable Electronics
Researchers at UCLA have used a standard LightScribe DVD optical drive to produce electrodes that not only maintain high conductivity but also provide higher and more accessible surface area than conventional ECs that use activated carbon electrodes.The process is based on coating a DVD...
News
Standard Hand Gestures Guide Robot Planes
Researchers at MIT are working on a system that would enable robot planes to follow standard hand gestures. The team recorded a series of videos in which several people performed a set of 24 gestures commonly used by aircraft-carrier deck personnel.The MIT researchers’ software represented the contents of...
News: Unmanned Systems
University Team’s Unmanned Aircraft Jetting Toward Commercialization
Propulsion by a novel jet engine is the innovation behind a University of Colorado Boulder-developed aircraft that’s accelerating toward commercialization. Jet engine technology can be small, fuel-efficient, and cost-effective, at least with Assistant Professor Ryan...
News
NASA Engine Icing Research Project on Track for Launch
NASA scientists are making progress in their preparations to mount a detailed research campaign aimed at solving a modern-day aviation mystery involving the unlikely combination of fire and ice inside a running jet engine. The investigation deals with the seemingly strange notion that ice...
News
Future Aircraft Could Capture and Re-Use Their Own Power
Tomorrow's aircraft could contribute to their power needs by harnessing energy from the wheel rotation of their landing gear to generate electricity. They could use this to power their taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use their jet engines. This would save on...
Videos: Medical
Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and other collaborators have demonstrated the efficacy of a wearable, portable PET scanner they've developed for rats. The device will give...
Videos: Research Lab
Phytoremediation is the use of plants and trees to remove or neutralize contaminants in polluted soil or water. Argonne scientist M. Cristina Negri leads the phytotechnologies R&D activities at Argonne....
News: Energy
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation. Nanowires,...
Videos: Imaging
Ames Laboratory scientist Song Zhang explains his real-time 3D imaging technology. The technique can be used to create high-resolution, real-time, precise, 3D images for use in healthcare, security, and entertainment...
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Videos: Medical
A team from Georgia Tech, led by Post Doctorate Fellow Mario Romero of the School of Interactive Computing, has designed BrailleTouch for touchscreen mobile devices. The prototype app allows visually...
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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.