Products: Test & Measurement
Digital Multimeters
The U1280 and U1240C Series handheld digital multimeters from Keysight Technologies (Santa Rosa, CA) feature 60,000-count display resolution and 0.025 percent accuracy. The 4.5-digit handheld DMMs are suited for...
Products: Test & Measurement
Multi-Function Instrument
National Instruments (Austin, TX) introduced a high-performance model of the software-based VirtualBench all-in-one instrument that combines a mixed-signal oscilloscope, function generator, digital multimeter,...
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Strain Gauge Monitors
Bristol Instruments (Boston, MA) introduced the OM502T Series of monitors for strain gauge sensors. The 5-digit instruments are programmable for mathematical functions, including peak and tare, as well as digital...
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Shaft Voltage Tester
The AEGIS® CAT II/III Shaft Voltage Tester™ digital oscilloscope from Electro Static Technology (Mechanic Falls, ME) enables testing of industrial motors controlled by variable frequency drives (VFDs). The tester is...
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RF Signal Generators
Saelig Co. (Fairport, NY) announced Rigol DSG800 RF signal generators with output frequencies from 9 kHz to 3.0 GHz. They provide an RF signal source with a maximum output of +20 dBm and frequency resolution of 0.01 Hz...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
New Flow Battery Offers Lower-Cost Energy Storage
A new flow battery technology is projected to cost 60 percent less than today's standard flow batteries. The lower cost is due to the battery's active materials being inexpensive organic...
INSIDER: Motion Control
New Ways to Construct Contactless Magnetic Gears
Magnetic gears transmit rotary motion like mechanical gears but instead of teeth they use magnetic attraction and repulsion between rotating magnets. Magnetic gears have several advantages...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Wall-Climbing Drone Flies and Sticks to Target
Researchers have developed the CAROS (Climbing Aerial RObot System) wall-climbing robot with higher mobility than existing wall-climbing robots because it can fly. It also can restore its...
Question of the Week
Will self-cleaning laundry catch on?
This week's Question: Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a cheap and efficient way to alter fabric so that stains disappear after a few minutes of sun exposure. When the nanostructures are placed in light, the materials receive an energy boost that creates "hot electrons."...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers Turn Carbon Dioxide into Concrete
A new system developed by UCLA researchers captures carbon from smokestacks and processes the C02 into a new building material that could replace concrete. The tiny cones of the...
INSIDER: Materials
Graphene-Based Device Improves Water Filtering
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, lack of access to safe, clean water is the biggest risk to society over the coming decade. A new graphene-based filter built by...
Question of the Week
Do you feel safe in a "connected" car?
This week's Question: According to a public service announcement last week from The FBI, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Department of Transportation, vehicles will be increasingly subject to cybersecurity risks as they become more automated and less controlled by drivers. In the...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Jim Heidmann, Project Manager for NASA’s Advanced Air Transport Technology Project, and Jason Welstead, Aerospace Engineer
Jim Heidmann of Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, OH) and Jason Welstead of Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA) have led NASA efforts to develop all-electric and hybrid-electric designs for large passenger aircraft....
News: Software
Algorithm Makes Hyperspectral Imaging Faster
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Delaware have developed an algorithm that can quickly and accurately reconstruct hyperspectral images using less data. The...
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new imaging technique, tested on samples of nanoscale...
Combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) with near-infrared autofluorescence (NIRAF) imaging may more accurately identify coronary artery plaques that are most likely to...
News: Semiconductors & ICs
World's Thinnest Lens May Revolutionize Cameras
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have created the world's thinnest lens, one two-thousandth the thickness of a human hair, opening the door to flexible computer displays...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Microfluidics is Key to Mass-Producing Nanomaterials
Nanoparticles can be found in everything from drug-delivery formulations to high-definition televisions. They’re also expensive and a pain to make. Researchers at USC have created a...
INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA Satellite Marks First Space Use of 3D-Printed Part
NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will carry an electrostatically dissipative Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), or “strand-based,” 3D printed part made...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Manufacturing Optical Chips with Multiple Purposes
Researchers are at the forefront of a revolution in microwave photonics, developing the first all-purpose programmable optical chips. Optical chips or processors are used in everything...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers Create Super-Thin Lens
Scientists at Australian National University have created a lens that measures one two-thousandth the thickness of human hair. The technology will support the development of flexible computer displays and...
Question of the Week
Should we establish a colony on the moon?
This week's Question: NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay recently edited a special issue in the journal New Space, publishing papers that came out of a 2014 meeting with scientists and space business professionals. The goal of the 2014 meeting was to explore and develop low-cost options for building a human...
News: Software
Celebrate Pi Day with NASA Goddard and Discover Pi-Sat
The Innovative Technology Partnerships Office (ITPO) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (Goddard) in Greenbelt, MD, invites you to celebrate Pi Day on March 14 and discover Pi-Sat....
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Light-Up Skin Stretches Robotic Boundaries
Cornell University researchers have developed an electroluminescent skin capable of stretching to nearly six times its original size while still emitting light.
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Self-Test Kit Warns Soldiers of Biological Exposure
The U.S. Army’s newly developed biological self-test kit can quickly identify the presence of a pathogen of concern such as ricin, anthrax, or plague, and automatically send the result...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA Tests Life-Detection Drill in Earth’s Driest Place
The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) project completed its first deployment after one month of field work in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert in Chile,...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
App Turns Smartphones into Earthquake Detection Network
UC Berkeley scientists released a free Android app that taps a smartphone’s ability to record ground shaking from an earthquake, with the goal of creating a worldwide seismic...
INSIDER: Energy
Ultra-Thin Solar Cells Rest on a Soap Bubble
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a solar cell so light and thin that it can rest atop a soap bubble.
Though it may take years before the device is...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Iron Studded BNNTs Could Replace Semiconductors in Wearable Tech
The road to more versatile wearable technology is dotted with iron. Specifically, quantum dots of iron arranged on boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). The new material is the...
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