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Question of the Week: Imaging
Can Camera Systems Replace the Wall-Mounted Thermostat?
Our lead INSIDER story today showcased an autonomous 'HEAT' camera system that uses facial temperatures to determine a room's optimum temperature. What do you think? Can Camera Systems Replace the Wall-Mounted Thermostat? Share your questions and comments.
Blog: Software
You can design the best product in the world but what if the parts, assemblies, and sub-components for your idea aren’t there?
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Blog: Photonics/Optics
A reader asks our NASA expert: "What kind of redundancy is built into the Mars 2020 rover?"
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Special Reports: Transportation
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Vehicle Electrification - July 2020
The global transition to electric vehicles presents new design, manufacturing, and infrastructure challenges. To help you keep pace with the rapid changes in vehicle electrification technology, we present...

Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Exploring Mars - July 2020
As NASA prepares this week to launch its latest robotic rover to the Red Planet, we are excited to present this commemorative publication chronicling – through historic images and video – six decades of Mars...

Briefs: Imaging
A research team has built a super-high-speed microscope.
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Briefs: Imaging
A new low-cost imaging system could make it easier to track mosquito species that carry disease, enabling a more timely and targeted response.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
New surveillance sensors are able to perform better than ever under unpredictable and dynamic lighting conditions.
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Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
Make sure the polished optic meets the requirement of a particular application.
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Articles: Lighting
In-line testing of certain LEDs, using nanosecond pulses, will become more and more relevant with time-of-flight applications.
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Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
Highly technical glass-ceramic delivers optical precision at nanometer scale.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
High-speed cameras, ultra-stable mounts, automated inspection systems, and more...
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new iteration of sCMOS camera technology promises even higher sensitivity than prior designs.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new CT scan method using intense synchrotron radiation produces higher quality images within milliseconds.
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Application Briefs: Lighting
There’s been a race to the top among industrial LED lighting manufacturers as they scramble to squeeze the maximum possible lumens per watt (LPW) out of their products.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues in China, have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Quantum computer circuits that will no longer need extremely cold temperatures to function could become a reality.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This method creates a thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery.
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5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In the operating room, you can produce bioresorbable metal implants, such as screws for bone fractures.
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Briefs: Materials
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
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Briefs: Transportation
The new technology demonstrates a 20 percent savings in fuel in typical passenger car low-load operating conditions.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
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Briefs: AR/AI
This rapid screening system tests fracture resistance in billions of potential materials.
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Briefs: Energy
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Materials
The new filament allows low-cost printers to produce parts with mechanical properties competitive with injection molded plastics.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The miniaturized, autonomous, reconfigurable solar sail is capable of very fine maneuvering by small surface deformation.
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Briefs: Software
This method provides a fast way to assess rocket engine performance in a variety of operating conditions.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Automated systems developed for NASA now serve as office conference bridges.
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