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Briefs: Materials
Making High-Tensile-Strength Amalgam Components
Structural components made of amalgams can be made to have tensile strengths much greater than previously known to be possible. Amalgams, perhaps best known for their use in dental fillings, have several useful attributes, including room- temperature fabrication, corrosion resistance, dimensional...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Dynatem (Mission Viejo, CA) offers the Intel® Core-Duo (Yonah) processor-based DPD VMEbus Single Board Computer (SBC). The DPD is a single-slot VMEbus (and VME64) compatible platform and requires only 5V from...
Briefs: Materials
A simple, inexpensive method for bonding solid objects exploits hydroxidecatalyzed hydration and dehydration to form silicatelike networks in thin surface and interfacial layers between...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The new line of high-frequency center probe test sockets from Aries Electronics (Frenchtown, NJ) can be used with devices requiring pitches as low as 0.40mm. The sockets are used in CSP, MicroBGA, DSP, LGA, SRAM, DRAM,...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Balanced flow meters are recent additions to an established class of simple, rugged flow meters that contain no moving parts in contact with flow and are based on measurement of pressure drops across...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Lambda (San Diego, CA) has introduced the HWS1000 series of 1000-watt power supplies. The single-output power supplies are ideal for powering process control equipment, ATE, and factory automation systems. The power...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Ever stand up too quickly from a sitting or lying position and feel dizzy or disoriented for a brief moment? The downward push of Earth's gravity naturally...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
For decades now, NASA has been sending spacecraft throughout the galaxy. Once in the cosmos, these crafts use advanced cameras to create images of corners...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Glenn Research Center’s Mechanical Components Branch routinely conducts research on transmissions and gearing for advanced gas turbines, promoting their...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Ice accumulation is a serious safety hazard for aircraft. The presence of ice on airplane surfaces prevents the even flow of air, which increases drag...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Nanotubes are sheets of graphite, one atom thick, rolled into seamless cylinders, with an exterior diameter in the range of nanometers. For a sense of...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center, the Macro-Fiber Composite (MFC) is an innovative, low-cost piezoelectric device designed for...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
When NASA programs need the ultimate reliability to power deep space probes, they repeatedly select thermoelectric (TE) devices as a system component. TE devices heat, cool, and generate...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Neuropsychology is the study of how the brain relates to behavior, emotion, and cognition. Clinical neuropsychologists evaluate the...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
When the U.S. Congress created NASA in 1958, it sought to ensure that the Nation saw returns on its investments in aerospace research. It,...
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
How does life begin and evolve? Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? What is the future of life on Earth and beyond?
NASA Spinoff: Medical
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Developed by Dr. James Tilton, a computer engineer with Goddard Space Flight Center's Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office,...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Gridlock, bottlenecks, bumper-to-bumper jams—we all get caught in congestion at one time or another, as the rigors of road traffic are an inevitable...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Often times, when people think of NASA, they think of space travel. The first "A" in NASA, however, is for "Aeronautics," and the Agency has always held as one of...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Aviation is one of the safest means of transportation, but aviation safety professionals always work to make it safer. When flights operate outside of the...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Advanced rotorcraft airfoils developed by U.S. Army engineers working with NASA's Langley Research Center were part of the Army's risk reduction program for...
NASA Spinoff: Transportation
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Ice accumulation is a serious safety hazard for aircraft. The presence of ice on airplane surfaces prevents the even flow of air, which increases drag...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
As fleets of aircraft age, corrosion of metal parts becomes a very real economic and safety concern. Corrosive agents like moisture, salt, and industrial...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The Microgravity Combustion Science group at NASA's Glenn Research Center studies how fire and combustible liquids and gasses behave in low-gravity...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Although one of NASA's goals is to send people to the far reaches of our universe, it is still well known that people need Earth. We understand that humankind's existence relies on its complex...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Short wavelength solar radiation in the space environment just outside of the Earth's atmosphere produces atomic oxygen. This gas reacts with...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Earth from space—swirling wisps of white against a backdrop of deep azure, punctuated with brown and green swatches of land, all etched on one orb...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
During the Mercury missions, astronauts ate terrible food: freeze- dried powders and semi-liquids in aluminum tubes. Decades later, though, astronauts now...
NASA Spinoff
The heat generated by wind resistance and engine exhaust during the launch of a space shuttle is potentially damaging to the casings on the solid rocket boosters, which provide over two-thirds of the...
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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.