NASA Spinoff
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Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Sterilizing Fogger Cleans Ambulances with a Breeze
NASA Technology
When paramedics come racing into a home, the last thing anybody is worrying about is where the ambulance was earlier that morning. But traces of those earlier...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Biometric Sensors Optimize Workouts
NASA Technology
What if, as a pilot was pulling heavy G-forces and headed toward a blackout, a voice in his or her ear said, “Pull out of the turn”? What if ground control had a screen with...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Optimized Imager Tracks Cancer, Stem Cells in Medical Research
NASA Technology
After earning his doctorate, Debashish Roy set about creating a business from the biological imaging device he’d helped invent as a graduate...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Weightless “Weight”-Lifting Builds Muscle on Earth
NASA Technology
NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid spent hundreds of hours exercising during her 188-day stay on the Russian space station Mir in 1996. Although it was her least...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Virtual Therapist Offers Out-of-This-World Depression Treatment
NASA Technology
Imagine being stuck in a small space with just a few coworkers for months at a time. Each person’s work is crucial to the success—even the...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Compact Spectrometers Unveil Clues to Diagnose Cancer
NASA Technology
It may seem hard to remember now, with thousands of planets of various types and sizes discovered throughout the galaxy, but back in the 1990s, the field of...
Spinoff: Transportation
Innovative Design Propels Small Jet Faster, Farther with Less Fuel
NASA Technology
These days computers handle a lot of the work for designing an airplane, but when it comes to seeing how well the new design will really handle in...
Spinoff: Transportation
Design Software Transforms How Commercial Jetliners Are Built
NASA Technology
In the late 1990s, as computers were becoming vastly more powerful, Stuart Rogers began working on Pegasus 5—software that made use of this...
Spinoff: Transportation
Original Cryogenic Engine Still Powers Exploration, Defense, Industry
NASA Technology
At a time when cell phones and automobile features are outdated after a few short years, it may seem impossible that any technology would...
Spinoff: Transportation
Time-Triggered Ethernet Slims Down Critical Data Systems
NASA Technology
Ethernet computer networks date back to the 1970s and are now used virtually everywhere, including in space. Inexpensive, ubiquitous, and easy to use,...
Spinoff: Transportation
Simplified Aircraft Modeling Packs Weeks of Analysis into Minutes
NASA Technology
It wasn’t Walt Silva’s job to invent a technique to dramatically speed up computational modeling of aircraft. But the NASA researcher did it...
Spinoff: Public Safety
Radar Device Detects Heartbeats Trapped under Wreckage
NASA Technology
Late on a sweltering morning in July 2016, David Lewis Jr. crawls into a concrete tube in a heap of rubble amid what used to be a Northern Virginia prison...
Spinoff: Public Safety
Surveillance System Captures, Maps Lightning Strikes
NASA Technology
On July 7, 2011, as Space Shuttle Atlantis sat on the launch pad just one day before it was due to make the final voyage of NASA’s 30-year Shuttle program,...
Spinoff: Public Safety
Virtual Reality Platform Helps Pilots Land in the Sky
NASA Technology
When a plane overshoots the final approach for a landing, often the pilot’s natural—and dangerous—instinct is to pitch up the aircraft to slow down and...
Spinoff: Public Safety
Autonomous Robots Take On Dangerous Warehouse Jobs
NASA Technology
“Where does a 600-pound spider go? Anywhere she wants to.”
Spinoff: Public Safety
Drone Traffic Forecasts Show Commercial Skies of the Future
NASA Technology
It’s a safe bet that the skies of the future will be hosting a lot more drones than they do today. If you can see beyond the low-flying pizza and...
Spinoff: Public Safety
Offshore Oil Workers Learn Survival Skills in Astronaut Training Pool
NASA Technology
To simulate weightlessness while rehearsing for NASA’s 1966 Gemini 12 mission, astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Gene Cernan practiced spacewalks...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
Apollo 11 History Archive Helps Virtual Reality Program Come to Life
NASA Technology
Imagine yourself in the cramped cockpit of the Apollo spacecraft heading to the moon. Look around to see Earth out one window and stars lighting...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
Light-Induced Oxidation Cleans Air, Surfaces, Clothes
NASA Technology
In late 2015 and early 2016, while Southern California Gas workers struggled for months to stop a natural gas leak from a well at Aliso Canyon in Los Angeles,...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
Ferrofluid Technology Becomes a Magnet for Pioneering Artists
NASA Technology
In 2008, when Nikola Ilic came across an online video of moving ferrofluid sculptures by Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama, with black liquid rising into...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
The Martian Garden Recreates Red Planet’s Surface
NASA Technology
After the Phoenix lander settled into the northern polar region of Mars in 2008, its operators discovered that icy soil scraped from the planet’s surface was...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
Aerogel Insulation Makes Thinner, Warmer Outerwear
NASA Technology
When Michael Markesbery, future cofounder of Oros, climbed the tallest mountain in the Swiss Alps with friends, he was bundled up with so many bulky layers he...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
Space-Grade Insulation Keeps Beer Colder on Earth
NASA Technology
A class of insulation invented to help NASA with a range of daunting tasks, from storing liquid hydrogen or helium to insulating spacecraft and keeping astronauts...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
High-Efficiency LEDs Grow Crops, Stimulate Alertness
NASA Technology
NASA harnesses the power of light for purposes as varied as laser communications, 3D mapping of land surfaces, and spectroscopy to determine the composition of...
Spinoff: Consumer, Home, and Recreation
Paired Sleep Tracker, Light Therapy Tools Retrain Circadian Rhythms
NASA Technology
Lack of sleep could be costing the U.S. economy around $411 billion a year, according to a 2016 estimate by the RAND Corporation. That same year,...
Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources
Organic Compound Turns Toxic Waste into Harmless Byproducts
NASA Technology
In 2004, a team of researchers at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) was trying to develop a substance that would glow to indicate the presence of...
Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources
LED Lighting Improves Efficiency, Imaging, Cuts Maintenance
NASA Technology
When Stennis Space Center officials wanted to try more energy-efficient lighting in the center’s rocket engine test stands, they couldn’t simply go...
Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources
Plant Food for Space Grows Crops on Earth
NASA Technology
The goal is a fresh and tasty salad on Mars. While other NASA programs are working on getting to the Red Planet, the Agency’s Veggie team is figuring out how to grow...
Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources
Remote Sensing Technology Fights Forest Fires Smarter
NASA Technology
Fires were raging in Northern California in June 2008, at the height of one of the state’s most destructive wildfire seasons in history, and one blaze was...
Spinoff: Environmental and Agricultural Resources
Earth Images Enable Near-Perfect Crop Predictions
NASA Technology
NASA has been taking pictures of Earth from space for as long as the Space Agency has been around—and well before Boston-based startup TellusLabs began using...
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Blog: Electronics & ComputersA Standalone AC Battery Begins with a Cathode, an Anode, and a 'Biode'
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Videos: Motion Control
Videos: Motion ControlBoston Dynamics' 'Atlas' Robot Does Full Gymnastics Routine
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid SystemsCreating the Future: New Take on Welding Gun Bonds Plastic and Metal —...
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Videos: Motion Control
Videos: Motion ControlMini-Cheetah Robot Demonstrates Dynamic Locomotion
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INSIDER: Power
INSIDER: PowerExposing Cathodes to Light Decreases Charge Time in Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
Blog: RF & Microwave ElectronicsActing Like Bees, Tiny Drones Find Their Way Through Unknown Environments
Webcasts
On-Demand Webinars: Communications
How to Integrate V2X Communication into Today’s Vehicles
Upcoming Webinars: Automotive
Multi-Injection SCR Lines for Optimal System NOx Reduction
Upcoming Webinars: Software
How to Validate Vehicle Behavior and Passenger Experience in Real-Time, Without Sacrificing Accuracy
Upcoming Webinars: Software
How to Effectively Estimate Parameters for Battery Modeling
Upcoming Webinars: Medical
New Developments in Catheter Shaft Components – Part 2
Upcoming Webinars: Green Design & Manufacturing
Rapid, Selective Volatile Emissions Testing for Vehicles and Components
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A Standalone AC Battery Begins with a Cathode, an Anode, and a 'Biode'
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Products: Transportation
Products: TransportationProduct of the Month: November 2019 Tech Briefs
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid SystemsA Closer Look at ULiSSES, A Device Extending the Life of Organs
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Exposing Cathodes to Light Decreases Charge Time in Lithium-Ion Batteries
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Making Hydrogen by Electrolysis of Methanol
Briefs: Aerospace