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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The two components offer predictable responses that support new robots and new energy-absorbing materials.
Question of the Week: Design
Would You Luge?
Could You Go 90 Miles an Hour in a Luge?
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Which machinery requires constant monitoring? According to one industry expert, the answer boils down to “Criticality.”
Blog: Data Acquisition
Data centers have found a more efficient way of handling power. So, what led to the better power path?
Question of the Week: Energy
Are Hydrogen Fuel Cells the Future?
In the summer of 2020, The Port of Los Angeles received 10 heavy-duty trucks, each having one defining component in common: a hydrogen fuel cell.
Blog: Energy
Are we really ready for hydrogen fuel cell trucks? An industry expert from Toyota talks about how hydrogen power is already being used in Los Angeles.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In efforts to limit the spread of disease while preserving privacy, an interdisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has designed and...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome by...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Twisted nanoscale semiconductors manipulate light in a new way. This effect could be harnessed to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines as well as photonic...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Demand for sensitive and selective electronic biosensors — analytical devices that monitor a target of interest in real time — is growing for a wide range of applications....
Question of the Week: Energy
Will ‘Ocean Batteries’ Catch On?
Our lead story today highlights an innovative energy approach from a Netherlands-based company called Ocean Grazer. Tied to existing wind farms, the team’s “Ocean Battery” pumps water from solid subsea reservoirs into flexible bladders located just above the seabed. When there is a demand for power, the...
INSIDER: Design
It might be tiny, but Peter Ryseck’s Mini QBIT offers hobbyists some serious fun — and could help foster new innovations in the field of unmanned aviation.
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A pair of University of Houston engineers has discovered that they can create upward fountains in water by shining laser beams on the water’s surface. Jiming Bao, professor of...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Like snowflakes, no two branches are alike. They can differ in size, shape, and texture; some might be wet or moss-covered or bursting with offshoots. And yet birds can land on just about...
Blog: Energy
For hydrogen-powered engines to reach a mainstream adoption, there are questions about infrastructure and regulation that must be answered.
Blog: Photonics/Optics
There are some things you just can't do at a virtual trade show. Editor Bruce A. Bennett walks the floor at SPIE Photonics West.
Blog: Photonics/Optics
Editor Bruce A. Bennett reports from SPIE Photonics West 2022 in San Francisco.
Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Will a Breath-Like Approach Cool Down Machinery?
University of Central Florida researchers are developing a human-like way for large machines to cool off: Letting the machines "breathe." (See our January issue of Tech Briefs to learn more.)
INSIDER: Energy
A newly completed solar microgrid system near Greensburg, Indiana, in Decatur County, is expected to generate enough emissions-free clean energy to offset nearly 4000 tons...
INSIDER: Energy
Every year, 50 percent of the energy produced worldwide from coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and renewable energy sources is lost as heat. This untapped resource could...
INSIDER: Energy
Using ultrabright X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, a team of researchers led by Rice University has determined that sunlight itself can improve the efficiency of 2D...
INSIDER: Energy
The aging energy grid is being pushed to the breaking point. Power outages from extreme weather alone cost anywhere from $2 billion to $77 billion per year. And some isolated communities still rely on...
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A combination of materials can morph into various shapes before hardening.
Question of the Week: Unmanned Systems
Will Autonomous Trucks Deliver Goods (In the Very-Near Future)?
Just last month, a truck developed by the California-based autonomous-vehicle company TuSimple completed an autonomous 80-mile run from Tucson to Phoenix.
Blog: Energy
An everyday material that we all know well may lead to safer, longer-lasting batteries for the electric vehicle.
INSIDER: Aerospace
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched on December 25 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. A joint effort with ESA (European...
INSIDER: Imaging
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have succeeded in creating an experimental model of an elusive kind of fundamental particle called a skyrmion in a beam of light. The breakthrough...
INSIDER: Imaging
Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) QVGA Camera
Attollo Engineering (Camarillo, CA) has introduced a quarter-VGA format camera (320 x 256 resolution), based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) shortwave infrared technology. The miniature...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Self-flying drones and autonomous taxis that can safely operate in fog may sound futuristic, but new research at Sandia National Laboratories’ fog facility is bringing the future...
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Power
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Quiz: Power
Blog: Data Acquisition
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