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Briefs: Energy
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
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Briefs: Materials
A solvent leaches cobalt and lithium for reuse from spent batteries.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.
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Briefs: Energy
This approach is a cost-effective way to convert carbon dioxide gas into methane.
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Briefs: Materials
Applying a surface-active agent makes metal easier to cut and shape into parts and pieces.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Electric motors and gas-alcohol engines could slash pollution levels and greenhouse gases from long-haul trucks.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
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Articles: Wearables
Heartbeat-based biometrics, sonic-boom displays, and an artificial leaf.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
A new method of estimating the optimal trailing aircraft position in a formation increases fuel savings.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.
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Briefs: Wearables
These stickers wirelessly beam health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers

Tech Briefs in 2019 celebrated historic NASA anniversaries, new ways to power electronics, and innovative hacks of our “smartest” technologies.

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Question of the Week: Energy
Will ‘Unbreakable Batteries’ Find a Place in Electronics and Vehicles?

Increasingly, lithium-ion batteries are supporting portable electronics, electric vehicles, and grid storage.

News: Energy

A unique new flexible and stretchable device, worn against the skin and capable of producing electrical energy by transforming the compounds present in sweat, has been developed and...

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Technology Leaders: Materials
As lithium-ion battery production doubles, more viable energy storage solutions are needed.
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Facility Focus: Electronics & Computers
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Q&A: Materials
Changing directions of twist and coiling changes whether a material cools or heats.
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Articles: Communications
Top prizes in the 2019 contest were awarded on November 8 in New York City.
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Briefs: Energy

Researchers have developed a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery with a cathode that stores the energy produced by a chemical reaction in a metal-oxygen or metal-air battery....

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a calorimeter that is able to measure the total heat generated when specific types of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells are...

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Briefs: Transportation
A combination of additives shows promise for boosting battery performance in very cold or hot weather.
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Briefs: Energy
This lightweight material brings strength and durability to complex shapes.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This multifunctional hybrid laminate composite can be used for residential and commercial construction.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Life support research for astronauts enabled a solution to one aspect of climate change.
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Articles: Energy
Products include an aerosol scattering sensor; metal foam; and a new coated drug capsule.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The nanogenerator also acts as a weather station.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions and could transmit data for years before they need to be replaced.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology has applications in sonar, range measuring, directional-force sensors, flow meters, and vibration/noise sensing and control.
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