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Porex Leverages Customization to Decrease Device Complexity and Reduce Costs

For MDB’s Expert Insight, Nadia Hajjar, the Category Manager for Life Sciences solutions at Porex, experts in customized porous media, provides perspective on the...

Augmenting Simulation With Artificial Intelligence

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to simulation tools has the potential to add new dimensions to the design process. As AI’s capabilities begin to emerge, design and...

Smart Material Challenges Newton’s Laws of Motion

The team has developed a prototype metamaterial that uses electrical signals to control both the direction and intensity of energy waves passing through a solid material.

Physics-Aware Neural Networks Improve Camera-Based Machines

Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach for enhancing artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by...

Megawatt Electrical Motor Could Help Electrify Aviation

Aerospace engineers designed a 1-megawatt electrical motor that is a stepping stone toward electrifying the largest aircraft.

Superlubricity Coating for Nearly Friction-Free Surfaces

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a coating that could dramatically reduce friction in common load-bearing systems with moving...

RoboSAR: Multi-Robot Search and Rescue

RoboSAR — an autonomous search and rescue of victims in an indoor environment using a multi-robot team — works in tandem with human first responders and includes a graphic user interface. This project...

NASA’s Snake-Like Robot EELS Is Put to the Test(s)

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is creating and testing a snake-like robot called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). This robot is being developed to autonomously map, traverse, and...

This Robot Walks the Line — or Rather Balance Beam

Robotics Institute researchers have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot able to walk a narrow balance beam. By leveraging hardware often used to control satellites...

Sustainable Aviation: The Race to Net-Zero

The global aviation industry is pursuing the goal of net-zero carbon emissions, driving momentum for aircraft electrification. How much do you know about sustainable aviation? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

An EV Battery that Works in Sub-Zero Temperature

Many owners of EVs worry about how their battery will perform in extremely cold temperatures. However, a new battery chemistry may have solved that problem.

E-Tattoo Improves Heart Monitoring

A new flexible, wearable medical device could provide a major boost in the fight against heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. The ultrathin, lightweight electronic tattoo, or...

Smart Surgical Implant Coatings Provide Early Failure Warning

Newly developed smart coatings for surgical orthopedic implants can monitor strain on the devices to provide early warning of implant failures while killing infection-causing...

Q&A: Are Satellites Vulnerable to IoT Cyber Attacks?

Phosphorous VP of Product Sonu Shankar outlines the xIoT approach to cyber protection for satellites.

Filtered Rayleigh Scattering Enables Laser-Optical Measurement of Turbofan Thrust

Pratt & Whitney and Virginia Tech announced a pioneering new technology for calculating thrust using lasers to enable high-fidelity measurement of key gas...

AFMC Completes First Ever Flight of F-35 with F-22 Software

An F-35A Lightning II from the 461st Flight Test Squadron recently took flight with a complement of software applications developed by government and industry providers previously...

Augmented Reality for Nondestructive Inspections on Military Aircraft

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, has developed an augmented reality capability to assist in accomplishing nondestructive inspections, or NDI, for safety...

Hexapod: Motion Control for Stellar Applications

Scientific instruments, space flight simulators, and intergalactic telescopes demand out-of-this-world speed and accuracy in motion control. See how Mikrolar Inc. delivers this performance using...

Light Weighting Zinc

There has been much development in light weighting in the zinc die casting industry. Zinc die castings have shown the ability to be comparable in strength and weight as other lighter weight materials at lower costs. This...

3 Soft Robots in Action

See the new ways in which soft robots are aiming to change the world.

How Much Do You Know About Satellite Communications?

The use of satellites for wireless and mobile communication applications has become a widespread practice across multiple industries. How much do you know about satellite communications? Test yourself with this quiz.

New Sensing System Turns Almost Anything Into Touchscreen

Enabling computing systems to understand user interactions with everyday surfaces and objects can drive a wide range of applications. Here, a Voice PickUp Unit captures Surface Acoustic...

Graphene Improves Flexible and Wearable Electronics

At 200 times stronger than steel, graphene has been hailed as a super material of the future since its discovery in 2004. The ultrathin carbon material is an incredibly strong electrical and...

A Wearable Lab on a Patch

Nutromics breakthrough technology combines multiple DNA sensors with microneedles.

Defense Leaders Developing Standards to Improve Battery Acquisition Process

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks has made clear a healthy battery supply chain is essential for military capabilities and national security — and when...

US Army, DIU Partner on Prototype Software for Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Ground warfare is fast, complex, and lethal. As the Department of Defense’s (DoD) land warfare component, the U.S. Army needs to find a way to safely conduct...

New Lockheed Martin Partnership Targets Domestic Semiconductor Manufacturing

Lockheed Martin has partnered with GlobalFoundries to advance U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturing and innovation and to increase the security, reliability and...

Northrop Grumman Developing Next Generation Inertial Sensor for US Navy

The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a new production contract for the new AN/WSN-12 Inertial Sensor Module (ISM). Northrop Grumman’s AN/WSN-12 ISM is a...

Power Electronics: The Backbone of a Clean Energy Future

Power electronics are the glue that holds the clean energy future together. From atomic-scale analysis to grid integration, NREL has built out a pipeline of power electronics...