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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This innovation could lead to better drones, satellites, and biomedical devices.
Briefs: Imaging
This program enhances images and videos for smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
Briefs: Communications
CAESAR Plug-in for MagicDraw
Users can maintain the consistency of a flight system design.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This mechanical gyroscope can advance motion sensing capabilities in consumer-sized applications.
Briefs: Automotive
Conventional fastening mechanisms like nails, bolts, and welds are subject to manufacturing and inspection tolerances, differential thermal growth, and other sources of error that lead to over-constraint, among other...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is home to one of the largest buildings in the world — the massive Vehicle Assembly Building — and also hosts a number of one-of-a-kind facilities. The more...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Systems of tiny robots could build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
Special Reports: Defense
Rugged Computing - February 2020
From the battlefield to the extreme environment of space, electronics and computing advances enable missions in the harshest conditions. To help you keep pace with the latest developments, we present this...Special Reports: Materials
Advanced Materials - February 2020
Breakthroughs in plastics, composites, metals, and other materials technologies are enabling exciting new applications in industries ranging from aerospace to automotive to medical. Read more in this Special...Blog: Aerospace
When astronauts arrive on the Moon, their habitat may be one made out of fungi.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA is using the International Space Station as a testbed for 3D printing.
Question of the Week: Transportation
Would You Ride in a Flying Car?
A flying car, also known as a rotable aircraft, is something that inventors have been dreaming about for a very long time. Stuck in traffic? Just take-off and get out of there.
Blog: Aerospace
NASA came to CES with a message: We're going back to the Moon, and we'll need help from industry to do it.
Blog: Aerospace
Stuck in traffic? The Pegasus flying car can get you out of there.
Question of the Week: Aerospace
Will We Use Satellites to Fix Satellites?
A recent INSIDER described one researcher’s idea to fix a broken satellite: Send up a repair satellite! Read the Tech Briefs Q&A for details.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As additive manufacturing supports the creation of critical metal parts, designers need to know that the parts are high-quality.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
Application Briefs: Imaging
NASA and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) recently tested a new way to see the Sun
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Planetary Tides Simulation Facility for Simulation Tidal Strain in Planetary Ice Analogs
Applications include modeling of tidal stress response of icy satellites as well as fatigue of terrestrial ice shelves.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technique lowers airstream noise generated at the side edges of deployed flaps, elevons, or slats.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
NASA and universities from across the country are teaming up to support a continued human presence on the Moon and ultimately Mars.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.
Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
See how NOAA provides daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, climate monitoring, and more.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Applying a surface-active agent makes metal easier to cut and shape into parts and pieces.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
Briefs: Aerospace
This thin film can be used for ground-based and airborne applications in aircraft, balloons, and other flight missions.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The non-destructive coating has applications in structural health monitoring, aerospace, automotive, and military/defense.
Top Stories
Blog: Materials
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Energy
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Quiz: Energy
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
Blog: Physical Sciences
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