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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology detects the presence of one or more specific chemical components in a liquid.
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Articles: Wearables
A smartwatch that tracks medication levels, a flexible LED, and NASA's "Micro-Organ" device platform.
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Briefs: Imaging
Infrared Detectors Enhance Night-Vision Cameras
The ability to enhance night vision could improve what can be seen in space, in chemical and biological disaster areas, and on the battlefield.
Application Briefs: Imaging
Once installed at Las Campanas Observatory in the Chilean Andes, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will introduce incredible opportunities for astrophysics.
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Briefs: Imaging
Cancer treatment could be dramatically improved by precisely locating the edges of tumors during surgery to remove them.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The network is designed for remote, low-resource locations where power and communications infrastructure are scarce.
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Briefs: Software
Future robots could be taught how to outperform humans.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology, which could be added to smart watches, could detect the onset of Parkinson’s disease or help with stroke rehabilitation.
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Briefs: Motion Control
The Tentacle Bot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects.
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NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
A technique to assess astronauts’ balance recovery helps people assess their risk of falling.
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Briefs: Materials
An environmentally friendly method upcycles carbon dioxide emissions into polymers and other materials.
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Briefs: AR/AI
VR/AR devices can simulate some of the key difficulties experienced due to glaucoma.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This form of thermal management can help enable untethered, high-powered robots to operate for long periods of time without overheating.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Tests show magnetoelectric power is a viable option for clinical-grade implants.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Multi-sensor imaging systems, eyesafe laser finders, machine vision algorithms, and more.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
With low-cost materials called perovskites, stable, continuous lasing is achieved at room temperature for over an hour.
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Articles: Imaging
See what kinds of applications are possible when you can literally see light propagating through space.
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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Creating next-generation LEDs for novel efforts like COVID-19 decontamination requires LED manufacturers to reevaluate the materials that they’re using.
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Briefs: Materials
See how tantalum disulfide is supporting new kinds of optics, and potentially new kinds of application for VR and self-driving cars.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
MIT engineers are envisioning robots more like home helpers.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
A "TPSI" process makes it possible to distinguish between the front and back of optical surfaces, and to characterize the quality of both in a single measurement.
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Application Briefs: Imaging
With Nikon's Layer Thickness software module, comprehensive information about a specimen is obtained more quickly than if an operator is making all the measurements by hand.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A NIST method employs a neural network to detect patterns like geometric objects in imaging data.
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Products: Test & Measurement
The SHFQA Quantum Analyzer from Zurich Instruments operates at up to 8.5 GHz and can perform direct readout of superconducting and spin qubits.
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Additive Manufacturing - November 2020
AM/3D Printing is fundamentally changing how products are prototyped and produced in aerospace, medical, electronics, and many other fields. To help you keep pace with the latest advances, we present this...

Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Purdue University innovators are taking cues from the spider to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
An interactive software being developed at the University of Tokyo allows architects and furniture makers with little experience in woodworking to to design and build structurally sound wood joints.
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INSIDER: Motion Control
NASA’s DuAxel, a pair of two-wheeled rovers each called Axel, can split in half with each half connected only by a tether that unspools as the lead axle approaches a hazard.
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