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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace

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Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE Automotive Podcast: Solid-State Batteries
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
5Ws of Unloading Robots
NASA Spinoff: Manned Systems
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Blog: Energy
As engineering continues to shape society and drive innovation, here are the year’s top 10 engineering stories that resonated most with Tech Briefs' audience.
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Blog: Power
If you’re wondering which of our videos from 2025 were the most popular, wonder no more! We’ve put together a list below of the top 5 Tech Briefs videos.
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Blog: Manned Systems
Learn which of our little tests were the most popular this year. Find out which five quizzes topped our 2025 list. Thanks for yet another year of loyal readership; we appreciate your devotion to Tech Briefs. Happy Holidays!
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Blog: Medical
It’s a mistake to focus on AI without thinking about how it is used by the people working with it.
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Podcasts: Energy
To help pass the time during your commute or while working around the house or in the garage, we've launched the SAE Automotive Engineering podcast.
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Podcasts: Defense
On this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast, Corsha CEO Anusha Iyer explains how machine identity, continuous authentication, and secure connectivity are accelerating digital transformation for the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center. Listen now!
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On-Demand Webinars: Software
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Manufacturers face increasing pressure to reduce downtime, improve precision, and accelerate time-to-market while managing complex production environments. This...
INSIDER: Lighting Technology
Miniaturization ranks as the driving force behind the semiconductor industry. The tremendous gains in computer performance since the 1950s are largely due to the fact that ever smaller...
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INSIDER: Research Lab
Scientists have long sought to make semiconductors that are also superconducting, thereby enhancing their speed and energy efficiency and enabling new quantum technologies. However,...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
As more devices get piled onto computer chips to increase processing power capacity, heat generation becomes increasingly concentrated. This heat must be removed to keep chip...
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INSIDER: Design
The phrase ‘liquid metal’ may bring to mind something hazardous, like mercury or molten steel. But in the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP) in EPFL’s School of...
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On-Demand Webinars: Software
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The automotive industry is facing a number of challenges in today's market including the pressure to adopt advanced digital technologies like digital twins, AI, big data, and AR/VR as well...
On-Demand Webinars: Energy
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Managing temperature in an electric vehicle (EV) is key to battery performance and range — not to mention safety. Thermal management techniques have made great strides over the past decade, but it...
Blog: Semiconductors & ICs
Engineers at The University of Texas at Austin are leading an academic and industry all-star team that aims to revolutionize the production of semiconductor chips with a new 3D printing method.
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Podcasts: Energy
On this episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast, Packet Digital CEO Terri Zimmerman breaks down the company’s push to expand U.S.-based production of advanced lithium-ion batteries for military unmanned aircraft systems. Listen now!
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Quiz: Communications
As 2026 nears, NASA continues moving forward to launching Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign, no later than April next year. Test your knowledge about the mission in this quiz.
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On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
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EV heat pumps present unique thermal management challenges. OEMs want to use existing R-1234yf systems as well as maintain low...
White Papers: Robotics, Automation & Control
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From Concept to Reality: How Robotics Is Transforming Our World
As robotics evolve from tools to trusted partners, their impact across industries—from manufacturing and healthcare to education and home automation—is accelerating. This white...

On-Demand Webinars: Defense
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Aerospace and defense programs face increasing challenges in predicting and mitigating vibration, acoustic, and shock impacts on vehicle performance and reliability. This...
Blog: Design
International research collaboration has unlocked a new approach that performs complex tensor computations using a single propagation of light. The result is single-shot tensor computing, achieved at the speed of light itself.
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Special Reports: Software
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ADAS/Connected & Automated Vehicles - December 2025
How the NVIDIA‐Magna collaboration is redefining autonomy…ultra‐realistic simulation speeds AV development…the 'autonomy underdogs' driving ADAS forward. Read about these and other new...

Products: Software
See the product of the month: OnLogic's new edge computer series, the Karbon 520.
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Products: Software
See what's new on the market, including the new ImageIR® 9800 from infraTec; Instron's new 100 kN table model for the 6800 and 3400 Series universal testing systems; Sumida Corporation's CIUH10D46 and CIUH10D47 pulse transformers; and much more.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A team of researchers from ETH Zurich investigated a new approach to passive dehumidification of indoor spaces. Read on to learn more about it.
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Briefs: Energy
As countries race to expand renewable energy infrastructure, balancing clean electricity production with land use for food remains a pressing challenge — especially in Japan, where mountainous terrain limits space. A recent study led by researchers from the University of Tokyo explores a promising solution: integrating solar panels with traditional rice farming in a practice known as agrivoltaics. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Researchers have created a simulation model to analyze how coastal management activities meant to protect barrier islands from sea-level rise can disrupt the natural processes that are keeping barrier islands above water. Read on to learn more about it.
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Briefs: Communications
Researchers have successfully demonstrated the U.K.’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network, including the U.K.’s first long-distance quantum-secured video call. Read on to learn more.
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