Articles : Green Design & Manufacturing
Hunting New Mining Deposits with Hyperspectral Imaging
Articles : Manufacturing & Prototyping
Facility Focus: Argonne National Laboratory
Articles : Manufacturing & Prototyping
Products of Tomorrow: February 2018
Articles : Medical
Innovators Recognized for "Creating the Future"
Articles : Medical
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Articles : Green Design & Manufacturing
2017 Create the Future Design Contest: Grand Prize Winner
Articles : Green Design & Manufacturing
2017 Create the Future Design Contest: Sustainable Technologies Category Winner
Energy Saving Filter for Removal of Heavy Metals from Water
Volodymyr Khranovskyy, R. Yakimova, Ivan Shtepliuk, P. Lima de Carvalho, and A. Pinto
Talent Molecule LDA
Braga, Portugal
Pollution by heavy metals (HMs) is a crucial...
Articles : Aerospace
2016 Create the Future Design Contest
The 2016 Create the Future Design Contest — sponsored by COMSOL, Mouser Electronics, and Tech Briefs Media Group (publishers of NASA Tech Briefs) — recognized innovation in product design in seven categories: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive/Transportation, Consumer Products, Electronics,...
Articles : Energy
2016 Create the Future Design Contest: Grand Prize Winner
Articles : Electronics & Computers
2016 Create the Future Contest: Automotive & Transportation Category Winner
Articles : Green Design & Manufacturing
2016 Create the Future Design Contest: Sustainable Technologies Category Winner
DESOLENATOR — WATER FROM SUNSHINE
William Janssen, Desolenator, London, UK
The Desolenator is a water-purification technology that decontaminates water from any source using only solar energy. The technology is a very affordable ($0.005/L)...
Articles : Aerospace
2015 Create the Future Design Contest: Sustainable Technologies Category Winner
ECHY: Solar Lighting with Fiber Optics
Stephanie Le Beuze
ECHY
Ile-de-France, France
For many, artificial light has completely replaced natural light. Lighting can account for up to 50% of building electricity consumption, and up to 56%...
Application Briefs : Green Design & Manufacturing
Autonomous Robots Keep Warehouse Running Green
YLOG, a startup company in Austria, uses an intelligent and very environmentally friendly logistics system that is winning an increasing number of customers. The technology makes use of individual, freely moving Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles (AiVs) that detect each other, observe right-of-way...
Articles : Green Design & Manufacturing
NASA's Hot 100 Technologies: Environment
This method offers a way of processing and recycling liquids to remove contaminants. The two-step process provides a contaminant treatment pouch, called a “urine cell” or “contaminant cell,” that converts urine or another liquid containing contaminants into a fortified drink, engineered to meet...
Articles : Green Design & Manufacturing
Home Air Purifiers Eradicate Harmful Pathogens
An air scrubber used in space station plant growth helps you breathe easier at home.
In the 1990s, NASA scientists were thinking of what astronauts would need to survive long-term missions to the Moon and other planets. One important requirement was a dependable source of food, which could...
Top Stories
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Answering Your Questions: Lithium-Air Battery vs. Lithium-Ion
Blog: Aerospace
Aboard SpaceX Cargo Capsule, New Ideas for Getting Rid of Space Junk
Podcasts: Propulsion
Here's an Idea: Listen to the Story of Rocketry and Modern Spaceflight
Blog: Transportation
How to Control Vehicle Emissions: Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) or...
Blog: Medical
Sponge-Inspired XSTAT Device Quickly Seals Gunshot Wounds
Briefs: Communications
Question of the Week
Can a Harpoon Help with Space Clean-Up?
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Electronics & Computers
The Future of VME / Rugged Computing in the Military
Upcoming Webinars: Imaging
Upcoming Webinars: Medical
Design for Manufacturability, Cleanability, & Serviceability
Upcoming Webinars: Software
Numerical Simulation of Microfluidic Devices
Upcoming Webinars: Medical
On-Demand Webinars: Materials
Fast, Reliable Coating Analysis with the Phenom XL Desktop SEM