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INSIDER: Motion Control
This new advance could pave the way for smaller, lighter, and more effective micro flying robots for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and deployment in hazardous...
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
In the fifteenth century, artist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci envisioned a craft that flew using a single helix-shaped propeller — the aerial screw — viewed by many as...
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Podcasts: Energy
Canadian battery recycling company Li-Cycle is leveraging its sustainable process to provide an end-of-life solution for lithium-ion batteries.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new technology uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new control mechanism may prove useful in devices that make use of optical signals.
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Application Briefs: Propulsion
Hybrid-electric propulsion systems hold clear potential to reduce aircraft carbon dioxide emissions and support the goal of greater sustainability in aviation.
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NASA Spinoff: Photonics/Optics
NASA’s lighting research gives people on Earth better rest and helps plants grow.
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INSIDER: Test & Measurement
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...
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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....
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Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - February 2022
How virtual, cloud-based technologies are powering the next industrial revolution...transforming plastic parts into high-value products...designing optics for medical 3D printing. Read these...

Special Reports: Test & Measurement
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Test & Measurement - February 2022
From space vehicles to the modern battlefield to the human body, test innovations are improving device and system reliability while speeding time to market. Read about the latest advances – including the...

Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Charger ICs, backup units, power supplies, and more.
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Application Briefs: Motion Control
OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, is helping NASA assess the risk of potential driving hazards on Mars.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
This system enables fast analysis of hyperspectral images in disaster response or target detection scenarios.
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Briefs: Energy
Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This approach could result in developing chemical sensors that are sensitive at a very low level to a specific chemical in the environment.
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Briefs: Energy
The method replenishes lithium in electrodes while keeping the existing structure intact.
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Briefs: Materials
An optimized flash process could reduce carbon emissions.
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Facility Focus: Manned Systems
Learn about the aviation, space, cybersecurity, and engineering achievements happening at Embry-Riddle.
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NASA Spinoff: RF & Microwave Electronics
Software created with NASA expertise improves satellite-based search and rescue system.
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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...
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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.
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INSIDER: Physical Sciences
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...
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INSIDER: Green Design & Manufacturing
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...
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INSIDER: Data Acquisition
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...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
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...
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Space Technology - January 2022
Read about the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, the NASA rocket that will carry humans back to the moon, the nanosatellites that are dramatically reducing the cost of space science, and much more...

Briefs: Test & Measurement
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will usher in a new era of laser communications.
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