News : Sensors/Data Acquisition
Answering Your Questions: How Can Medical IoT Devices Move Beyond Simple Information Gathering?
News : Aerospace
Preventing Premature Part Failures with Electropolishing
News : Test & Measurement
Advantages of Electropolishing for Penetrant Testing
Blog : Sensors/Data Acquisition
Meet Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer (and Asteroid Hunter)
INSIDER : Software
3D-Printed "Motion Sculptures" from 2D Videos
INSIDER : Motion Control
Controlling Nanomotors with Light
Question of the Week : Materials
Are the Possibilities for Squid Proteins 'Potentially Endless?'
Our second INSIDER story today featured a new switching effect for thermal conductivity.
Professor Patrick Hopkins and his colleagues discovered that a responsive protein from squid ring teeth contained properties supporting an on-and-off kind of thermal regulation. When the...
INSIDER : Electronics & Computers
Doubling Performance with Lithium Metal that Doesn’t Catch Fire
INSIDER : Energy
New App Will Extend Smartphone Battery Life
INSIDER : Energy
EV Charging in Cold Temperatures Could Pose Challenges for Drivers
Blog : Manufacturing & Prototyping
How To Get Your Company to Take 3D Printing Beyond Prototyping
Question of the Week : Materials
Have You Used Light-Curable Materials?
Manufacturers have turned to light-cure formulations to protect and improve a variety of components in the aerospace and defense industry, including image sensors, proximity systems, and printed circuit boards.
In a live webinar at 2 pm ET tomorrow, experts will discuss the advantages and benefits...
Articles : Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Key Considerations When Selecting a Connector Solution: Choosing a Suitable Connector Supplier
Podcasts : Sensors/Data Acquisition
Here's an Idea: Vibration Communication
Articles : Electronics & Computers
Key Considerations When Selecting a Connector Solution: Addressing Materials, Layout, and Assembly Aspects
Blog : Robotics, Automation & Control
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds a New Way to Drill Down
Blog : Manufacturing & Prototyping
Answering Your Questions: "What is Your Advice for a 3D Printing Beginner?"
News : Sensors/Data Acquisition
Air Quality Sleuths: Salt Lake's Light Rail Trains
The light rail network in the Salt Lake City area already does a lot to improve air quality. Its three lines move more than 67,000 people a day along 45 miles of track, saving countless car trips and sparing the air tons upon tons of petroleum-powered pollutants.
News : Transportation
Sensor Research: Magnetic Transducer Element With Vortex State
Many modern technological applications are based on magnetic forces. Examples are moving components in electric vehicles and storing data on hard disks. Magnetic fields are also used as sensors to detect other magnetic fields. In the automotive industry, for example, more precise...
News : Robotics, Automation & Control
Fleet of Aerial, Surface, and Underwater Robots Map Ocean Front
Using multiple autonomous vehicles simultaneously, an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers returns to the U.S. after exploring the North Pacific Subtropical front – a sharp boundary where cold fresh waters from the north meet warm salty waters from the south. The...
News : Sensors/Data Acquisition
Even One Automated, Connected Vehicle Can Improve Safety
Connected cruise control uses vehicle-to-vehicle communication to let automated vehicles respond to multiple cars at a time in an effort to save energy and improve safety. University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness on public roads, even when just one automated...
Question of the Week : Electronics & Computers
Are You Dealing with Power Failures?
Energy demands are increasing as consumer, industrial, and data communications markets require greater power distribution.
INSIDER : Imaging
Engineers Create a Camera With No Lens
Products : Photonics/Optics
New Products: September 2018 Photonics & Imaging Insider
INSIDER : Energy
Silicon-Based Tandem Photovoltaic Modules Show Potential
INSIDER : Test & Measurement
Researchers Devise New Way to Measure Light Beams
Blog : Manufacturing & Prototyping
Design Tool Brings a ‘Structural’ Approach to Color
News : Medical
New Use for Beer, Soup, Barley: Medical Imaging Drink
Briefs : Electronics & Computers
Technique Boosts Capacity of Computer Storage
The most dense solid-state memory ever created could soon exceed the capabilities of current computer storage devices by 1,000 times using a new technique. The same technology was used to manufacture atomic-scale circuits, allowing for quickly removing or replacing single hydrogen atoms. The...
Articles : Energy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Briefs : Materials
Metamaterial Device Controls Transmission and Reflection of Acoustic Waves
Articles : Materials
Products of Tomorrow: September 2018
Briefs : Materials
Nano/Micro Mechanical Environmental Test Cell
Briefs : Energy
Microtesting Rig
Briefs : Medical
Electrical Contact to Molecules in Semiconductor Structures
Briefs : Materials
High-Kinetic-Energy Penetrator Shielding and High-Wear-Resistance Materials Fabricated with Boron Nitride Nanotubes and BNNT Polymer Composites
In recent years, anti-penetration materials have been more widely used for armor, bulletproof vests, and micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection layers for space-suits, space vehicles, and...
Briefs : Power
Integrated Multiphysics and Advanced Diagnostics
Articles : Sensors/Data Acquisition
How Augmented Reality Will Disrupt the Manufacturing Industry
Briefs : Data Acquisition
Device Detects Explosives, Drugs, or Lead
Application Briefs : Test & Measurement
NASA's Robotic Sniffer Finds Space Station Leak
Briefs : Test & Measurement
Stray Energy Indicator for Pyrotechnic Applications
A compact and portable system is used to monitor and store real-time measurements of stray energy through a pyrotechnic firing circuit using infrared technology. The infrared sensor is mated to the NASA Standard Initiator simulator, and is calibrated such that the current input through the...
Briefs : Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D-Printed Active Materials for Robots
Briefs : Photonics/Optics
Faster Photons Could Make Data Totally Secure
Transferring data using light passed along fiber optic cables has become increasingly common over the past decades, but each pulse currently contains millions of photons. That means that in principle, a portion of these could be intercepted without detection. Secure data is already encrypted, but if...
Briefs : Nanotechnology
Atomically Thin Device Transmits Signals Across a Broad Frequency Range
Briefs : Materials
Catalytic Mechanism Converts CO2 to Methanol
Briefs : Energy
Novel Synaptic Architecture for Brain-Inspired Computing
Briefs : Aerospace
Carbon Dioxide Collection and Pressurization Technology
Mars is the ultimate destination for NASA's human exploration program. In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) is a key technology required to enable such missions. The goals of using resources available at the exploration site are to reduce launch and delivered mass, reduce risk and cost,...
Products : Sensors/Data Acquisition
New on the Market: September 2018
Briefs : Materials
Coatings Make Natural Fabrics Waterproof
Articles : Test & Measurement
Multifunctional, Integrated, Photonic Lab-on-a-Chip for Astronaut Health Monitoring
Application Briefs : Manufacturing & Prototyping
Coating Erosion Tests Help Keep Mars 2020 Rover Safe
Briefs : Medical
Artificial Intelligence Senses People Through Walls
Briefs : Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Piezoelectric Thrust Vector Control for Hall Effect Thruster
The design of the CubeSat required precision pointing of the thrust vector through the spacecraft center of gravity to minimize fuel usage for attitude correction. Because the center of gravity shifts over the course of the mission, a means of adjusting the thrust vector was needed....
Briefs : Electronics & Computers
Non-Toxic HAN Monopropellant Propulsion
A highly miniaturized, MR-143, green monopropellant thruster was developed for 1N thrust. Testing indicated the initial catalyst bed heater was insufficient. In subsequent development, the thruster was equipped with a more efficient catalyst bed heater. For reliable ignition of the advanced, non-toxic,...
NASA Spinoff : Transportation
Planet-Navigating AI “Brain” Helps Drones and Cars Avoid Collisions
Briefs : Data Acquisition
Transmitter Protects Wireless Data from Hackers
Briefs : Data Acquisition
Antiferromagnetic-Based Memory Processes Data at Terahertz Speeds
Data travels down fiber-optic cables at frequencies of several terahertz. As soon as the data arrives on a PC or television, this speed must be throttled down to match the data processing speed of the device components; this speed currently is in the range of a few hundred...
Briefs : Electronics & Computers
Active Measurement Cancellation
5 Ws : Imaging
5 Ws of a Simple Nerve Gas Detector
Q&A : Energy
Q&A: NYU's Dr. André D. Taylor Shows Pathway for Perovskite Cells
An international team of university researchers, led by Dr. Taylor, reports solving a major fabrication challenge for perovskite cells — the intriguing potential challengers to silicon-based solar cells. These crystalline structures show great promise because they can absorb...
Briefs : Communications
Rapidly Deployable Communications Platform
Briefs : Materials
Melt-Cast Explosive Material
Briefs : Test & Measurement
Flexible, Compliant, Multiline Microprobes for Measuring Material Electrical Properties
Briefs : Electronics & Computers
Faster, More Efficient Information Processing
For decades, computer chips have been shrinking thanks to a steady stream of technological improvements in processing density. Experts have, however, been warning that we'll soon reach the end of the trend known as Moore's Law, in which the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits...
Briefs : Materials
Controlled Manufacture of Porous Silicon Carbide
Articles : Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Expanding Role of Sensors in the IoT/IIoT
Briefs : Energy
Direct-Current Detector for Emergency Responder Safety
Articles : Energy
Solar PV and Lithium-Ion Battery Hybrids for the IIoT — A User's Guide
Application Briefs : Test & Measurement
How to Specify Intrinsically Safe Remote Monitoring Sensor Systems
Products : Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Products: September 2018 Sensor Technology
Briefs : Data Acquisition
Keeping Data Fresh for Wireless Networks
Briefs : Test & Measurement
The Ultimate ‘Smell Test’: Device Sends Rotten Food Warning to Smartphones
Briefs : Medical
A Nanotech Sensor Turns Molecular Fingerprints into Bar Codes
Briefs : Aerospace
NIST/NASA Study Shows One Detector Doesn't Fit All for Smoke in Spacecraft
Briefs : Data Acquisition
An Artificial Nerve System Developed at Stanford Gives Prosthetic Devices and Robots a Sense of Touch
Articles : Communications
What's Ahead for Machine Vision Cameras?
Application Briefs : Photonics/Optics
Specifying Coatings for Military and Aerospace Applications
Products : Sensors/Data Acquisition
New Products: September 2018 Photonics & Imaging Technology
Briefs : Test & Measurement
COSMIC Impact: Next-Gen X-Ray Microscopy Platform
Articles : Software
Advanced Materials Help Lasers Beat the Heat
Briefs : Imaging
A Paper-Like LCD — Thin, Flexible, Tough, and Cheap
Briefs : Photonics/Optics
Researchers Create Precision Optical Components with Inkjet Printing
Application Briefs : Imaging
Three Popular Machine Vision Standards
Products : Software
Product of the Month: September 2018 Tech Briefs
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Blog: Electronics & Computers

In High Temperatures, A New Class of Ceramics Controls Heat Radiation
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A Breakthrough in Earthquake Forecasting: Floating Buoy Measures Seafloor...
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Highly Sensitive Diode, Converts Microwaves to Usable Electricity
Videos: Motion Control

"M-Blocks" Jump, Flip, Communicate, and Self-Assemble into Structures
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'Direct Thermal Charging Cell' Turns Waste Heat into Power
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Question of the Week
Will ‘Unbreakable Batteries’ Find a Place in Electronics and Vehicles?
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Collaborative Robot Applications in the Automotive Industry
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Enhance Product Design and Dependability with Advanced Coating Technologies
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Rapid, Selective Volatile Emissions Testing for Vehicles and Components
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'Direct Thermal Charging Cell' Turns Waste Heat into Power
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The Role Deep Learning Plays in Imaging Software
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A Breakthrough in Earthquake Forecasting: Floating Buoy Measures Seafloor Motion
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In High Temperatures, A New Class of Ceramics Controls Heat Radiation
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Highly Sensitive Diode, Converts Microwaves to Usable Electricity
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