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Programmable Smart Fabric Responds to Temperature and Electricity

A smart material is activated by both heat and electricity, making it the first ever to respond to two different stimuli. The unique design paves the way for a wide variety of...

Bat ASC2: A Potent Negative Regulator of Inflammasomes

Bats are special in their ability to live long and host many emerging viruses. Previous studies showed that bats have altered inflammasomes, which are central players in aging and...

Commercial Lunar Landers Ready for the Moon

Through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, NASA is working with several U.S. companies to accelerate a robotic return to the Moon. Test your knowledge about commercial lunar landers in this quiz.

CES 2024: VW, Cerence Integrate ChatGPT in IDA Voice Assistant

ChatGPT has entered the car. At CES 2024, Volkswagen and technology partner Cerence introduced an update to IDA, VW’s in-car voice assistant, so it can now use ChatGPT to...

Cold Spray Technology

Naval Air Systems CommandNaval Air Station North Island, CA(619) 545-3415www.navair.navy.mil In the realm of naval aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul, a transformative technology is taking flight. At the heart...

CES 2024: Aeva Launches 4D Lidar for SAE Level 4 Trucks

Daimler Truck announced that Aeva will supply its latest Atlas 4D lidar for the Freightliner Cascadia truck platform and collaborate with Torc Robotics to integrate the technology....

Peregrine Spacecraft Suffers Propellant Leak After Successful Rocket Launch

Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander suffered a failure within its propulsion system after deploying from the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket on...

Bombardier to Start Building New Army HADES Prototype Spy Plane

Bombardier Defense has received a new contract award to develop a prototype spy plane for the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program. Under...

New DARPA X-Plane Will Have No Moving Control Surfaces

Aurora Flight Sciences has begun manufacturing work on a new X-plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors...

Boeing 737 MAX 9 Fleet Grounded Following In-Flight Loss of Cabin Door Plug

The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded 171 in-service Boeing 737 MAX 9s following an Alaska Airlines flight involving the aircraft type last week....

Lengthening the Lifespan of Concrete with Bacteria

A team at Drexel University has engineered a grid of BioFibers that can be embedded within a concrete structure to improve its durability, prevent cracks from growing, and even enable self-healing.

A Green Li-ion Battery-Recycling Method

Researchers have improved on approaches that dissolve the Li-ion batteries in a liquid solution to reduce the amount of hazardous chemicals used in the recycling process.

CES 2024: Bosch Shows Cabin-Monitoring Tech While Acknowledging Complexity

John Nowinski, Bosch’s North American project lead for interior sensing on cross-domain computing solutions, laid out a stark scenario that could be faced by...

How Webb Telescope Made Simulation Software Better

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope pushed optical modeling capabilities, driving advances in software used to design medical and augmented reality devices.

CES 2024: SDVs Redefine OEM and Supplier Relationships, Deliver New Features

For a technology set to define our automotive future for years to come, it’s surprising that not everyone in the industry can agree on what a software-defined...

Nature Inspires Robust Bicontinuous Materials

Materials science and engineering researchers at Cornell University are drawing inspiration from living systems like birds and insects. See how their findings may influence the future design of...

LLNL’s Sustainability and Polymer Additive Manufacturing

LLNL polymer and materials scientists have the state-of-the-art equipment and facilities needed to tackle the challenges in making the next generation of polymers using 3D printing....

Medical Materials Innovation Pioneers Honored

After working together for five years to develop new materials and applications for medicine, Professor Inge Herrmann and Researcher Alexandre Anthis have been awarded the ETH Zurich Latsis Prize...

How Much Do You Know About Predictive Maintenance?

One of the benefits of modern digital technology is that industrial maintenance can be done in a more efficient way than ever before, by using a process called predictive maintenance (PdM). See how much you understand about it — take this quiz.

Reaching for the Moon: Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic is at the precipice of groundbreaking historic opportunity with the launch of its Peregrine Mission One (PM1), which, if successful, will make it the first U.S. commercial spacecraft to land on the Moon.

5Ws of the Eye-Safe Laser

There is an urgent need for new technologies to improve the timeliness of traumatic brain injury diagnosis. Researchers from the University of Birmingham have a laser-based solution.

Tremec-Trification

Tremec is charting a future in vehicle electrification that leverages the company’s gear-manufacturing history while clearly departing from its intrinsic connection to internal combustion engine. Tremec, a transmission...

Torque Transmission Standout

NB Ball Splines have no backlash because precisely ground (not drawn) raceways conform to the shape of the ball in the nut and shaft so opposing raceways have the same angles of contact. The spline shaft is...

4 Predictions for 2024: AI Set to Supercharge Robotic Automation

Software is a key component of automation, and with AI, software developers will be able to create more customized and optimized solutions for various tasks and challenges.

NHTSA Moves on Driver-Impairment Regulation

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in mid-December took a significant step to formalize a safety regulation mandating technology to prevent impaired driving in new passenger vehicles. The primary question now is which technology to detect alcohol or drug impairment can get the job done.

From Shark Searches to Space Tours

Searching for sharks, even close to shore, means finding moving targets in vast stretches of ocean. Yet OCEARCH overcame those long odds to find and tag its first mature male great white shark off the East Coast, supported by NASA know-how. Learn more in this article.

Artificial Eyes Give Pilots a New Worldview

Flight-tested by NASA, the hardware now supports other camera systems on aircraft and spacecraft experiencing punishing temperature and altitudes.

NASA Engineers Help Create A Virtual World of Data

NASA engineers have been trying to improve data visualization for decades. Their research, experience, and patents lead to a new method of exploring and visualizing data in VR.

NASA Ingredients for Industrial Expedience

While trips to the Moon only needed a few days’ worth of meals, a mission to Mars would require years of food supplies that need to be perfectly preserved and ready to eat whenever it’s mealtime for astronauts.