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Briefs: Aerospace
The process provides a cost-effective solution for applications in space-based imaging systems, military reconnaissance, and satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Electrical cables are used in services such as power delivery, automation signaling, and communications.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks virtually the same as Curiosity but there are a number of differences.
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Technology Leaders: Communications
Low-power radio design is enabling new connected IoT products for consumer, commercial, industrial, and medical markets.
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Articles: Software
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Keith Comeaux, Deputy Project Chief Engineer, to learn more about the helicopter heading to Mars.
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Facility Focus: Imaging
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
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Briefs: Communications
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Mini-magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies.
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Articles: Energy
Nature-Inspired Energy Tech, Superelastic Tires, Wearable Supercapacitors, and more...
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NASA Spinoff: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Wool from special sheep keeps astronauts and emergency responders safe.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Ken Williford, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist, to learn more about the science capabilities of Perseverance.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Articles: Aerospace
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.
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Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
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Briefs: Materials
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
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Briefs: Materials
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
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Q&A: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A robotic finger has a sense of touch that can be localized with high precision over a large, multi-curved surface.
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Briefs: Materials
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
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Briefs: Energy
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
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Briefs: Materials
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
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Products: Data Acquisition
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
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5 Ws: Materials
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
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Articles: Aerospace
Learn about the four goals of the Mars 2020 mission.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Read our special series on the Mars 2020 mission, featuring interviews with NASA experts and designers of the Perseverance rover.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology supports CO2 emissions reduction in cement manufacturing.
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Briefs: Internet of Things
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
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