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Q&A: Implementing Advanced Medtech Manufacturing

The advent of Industry 4.0 marks a transformative change in the manufacturing landscape, presenting abundant prospects for enhanced efficiency, personalized solutions, and groundbreaking...

New Report Finds Need for Defense Laboratories to Improve Quantum Workforce Planning

Quantum technologies build on quantum physics to process and communicate information in ways that existing technologies can't. Nations leading quantum...

New Mobile Rocket-Launching System to Support Counter UAS Operations in Ukraine

The U.S. Navy will complete the delivery of a new rocket-launching counter unmanned aircraft system (CUAS) weapon system to Ukraine this month. The new...

Army Receives First Next Generation Precision Strike Missile

The U.S. Army has received the first delivery of its new Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) from Lockheed Martin following the completion of production qualification testing at...

DARPA-Funded Research Leads to Quantum Computing Breakthrough

A team of researchers working on the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has...

DoD Starts Prototyping Commercial Lithium Batteries for Aviation, Ground Vehicle and Soldier Power

Under the new Family of Advanced Standard Batteries (FAStBat) project, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and several other agencies are funding...

MasterControl Study: FDA, CPSC Recalls Up 115% Since 2018

MasterControl, a provider of quality and manufacturing software solutions for the life sciences industry, has released a new study analyzing five years of product recall data from...

Body Temperature Softens Needle on Insertion

Researchers have developed an intravenous (IV) needle that softens upon insertion, minimizing risk of damage to blood vessels and tissues. The Phase-Convertible, Adapting and non-REusable...

Purdue Helps Robots Navigate Unstable Ground

Purdue University researchers are stepping in to teach robots how to navigate the swaying deck of a boat or the uncertainty of a moving walkway — enabling their practical use in more real-world...

Using Robotics to Better Understand Ancient Species

Watch this video to see a Carnegie Mellon-led team develop a soft robot to better understand an ancient organism — the pleurocystitid — that existed 450 million years ago. As old to the...

Navajo Pottery-Inspired Ceramic Water Filter

Navajo pottery-inspired water filtration system developed by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can effectively and cheaply disinfect water.

10 Tech-Savvy Holiday Gifts for Engineers

Choosing a present for an engineer is almost as daunting as performing the tasks of an engineer. With that in mind, we here at Tech Briefs aim to make your life easier with regards to the former.

Human Factors in Drug Delivery

Human factors engineering helps prevent errors and contributes to the successful use of the device.

Schaeffler Heads Back to CES with New Acquisition, Capabilities

Schaeffler Group, energized by a new acquisition and a new tagline “we pioneer motion,” will showcase new capabilities at CES in January — its first appearance at the...

Surgery

What neurosurgery technique was inspired by a wine bottle opener?

How Much Do You Know About Surgical Robots?

Surgical robots allow doctors to perform complex procedures with more precision, flexibility, and control than possible with traditional techniques. Surgical robots are also sometimes used in conventional open surgical procedures.

Hydrogen ICE Is Heating Up

In the past three months, at least four major announcements have detailed the kickstart of development programs or real-world demonstrations of hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines (ICE). As OEMs and...

Boston Scientific Closes Acquisition of Relievant Medsystems, Inc.

Boston Scientific has closed the acquisition of Relievant Medsystems Inc., a company that offers the only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-cleared Intracept® Intraosseous...

Scientists Amplify Superconducting Sensor Array Signals Near the Quantum Limit

Understanding how energy moves in materials is fundamental to the study of quantum phenomena, catalytic reactions, and complex proteins. Measuring how energy...

Novel Approach to Advanced Electronics and Data Storage with Ferroelectricity

New research from Flinders University and UNSW Sydney, published in ACS Nano, explores switchable polarization in a new class of silicon compatible metal oxides...

Researchers Demonstrate a High-Speed Electrical Readout Method for Graphene Nanodevices

The 'wonder material' graphene is well-known for its high electrical conductivity, mechanical strength, and flexibility. Stacking two layers of graphene...

Siemens Expands U.S. Additive Manufacturing Initiatives

Siemens is expanding its focus on additive manufacturing (AM) initiatives in the United States to help accelerate the transformation of the U.S. AM industry through serial additive...

Meet El Capitan, “The Most Powerful Computing Machine in the World”

How do you build what aims to be “the most powerful computing machine in the world”? For starters, you can watch this video to see how Lawrence Livermore National...

Envisioning the Next Generation of Semiconducting Materials

Lina Quan’s Virginia Tech research group is envisioning the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductors for low-cost, transformative electronics and renewable...

BrushLens: Accessible Touchscreen Interface Actuation

Watch this video to learn more about BrushLens, a hardware interaction proxy that performs physical interactions on behalf of users while allowing them to continue utilizing accessible...

Inside Story: Establishing Safe EO Sterilization for Medical Devices

To find out more about the expertise required to establish a safe and effective EO Sterilization for medical devices, MDB recently spoke with Elizabeth Sydnor, director of microbiology for Eurofins Medical Device Testing (Lancaster, PA).

‘Digital Winglets’ for Real-Time Flight Paths

Traffic-Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR), developed by NASA, is a piece of software pilots and ground operations teams can use to find better routes in transit.

Galileo G2: Europe's Next-Generation GNSS Satellites

Full production has begun on the six Galileo Second-Generation (G2) satellites at the Airbus site in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Porsche Engineering Turns to AI to Improve AV Simulation

Porsche Engineering has teamed with a variety of partners for a new research project seeking to enhance the data available for simulating automated driving systems’ reaction in...