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Traveling Over the Holidays? RFID Could Help
Improvements in baggage handling rates may not have to come at a significant cost.
Plant to Demo Sewage-to-Biocrude Technology
The hydrothermal liquefaction technology mimics the geological conditions the Earth uses to create crude oil.
Bad Roads Can Cost You Money
Driving on poor roads increases consumer costs by accelerating vehicle deterioration and depreciation, increasing the frequency of required maintenance and boosting fuel consumption.
Biodegradable, Drug-loaded Fiber Is Introduced
New biodegradable fiber can be loaded to deliver drugs, vaccines, and even cells or live viruses to the body exactly where needed.
Carbon Nanotube Dry Adhesive Sticks in Extreme Temps
A carbon nanotube dry adhesive that bonds in extreme temperatures got its inspiration from the wall-walking gecko.
Portable Water Purification with Foil-Based LEDs
Nanowire-enhanced LEDs shine in the high-energy “deep” end of the UV spectrum.
Material Contracts When Heated
Most materials, such as those used to make buildings or bridges, expand when they become hot. For this reason, expansion joints are needed to allow the materials to swell without buckling.
Microbe Could Help Cut Methane Emissions
While there have been numerous indications that iron-dependent methane oxidizers existed, researchers have never been able to isolate them.
Ionospheric Storms Causing Satellites to Lose GPS Link
These thunderstorms occur when the number of electrons in the ionosphere undergoes large and rapid change.
Hardware Weakness Enables Operating System Attacks
By manipulating a CPU’s branch predictor to exploit a weak point in ASLR software, computer hackers could take control of individual, company and government computers.
Gold Nanowires Allow Operations at Cellular Level
Conventional surgical tools, including electrodes that are implanted in people's tissue, are unfavorably large on the cellular level.
Recycled Chewing Gum Sticks as a Raw Material
Discarded chewing gum is being used a raw material for commercial-grade thermoplastic elastomers to make rain boots, smartphone covers, and other products.
Vocal Biomarkers for Coronary Artery Disease
Certain vocal sound characteristics point to the existence of the disease.
DOE Names Wave Energy Prize Winners
The technically recoverable wave energy resource in the U.S. alone is about 1.1 trillion kWh/yr, or about one quarter of U.S. electricity consumption.
Engineer’s Guide to Copper vs. Fiber
An efficient modular infrastructure is required to adapt to fast-moving business requirements, increasing port and cable densities, and rapid deployment needs. But which to use: copper or fiber?
Finger Vein Authentication Uses Smartphone Camera
The advantage of finger vein authentication is that the characteristics used for biometric identification are in vivo, making it more difficult to forge or spoof.
Electricity Used to Track Water, Identify Concrete Degradation
The technology can determine where and whether water is infiltrating concrete, as well as how fast it is moving, how much water there is and how existing cracks are influencing the water movement.
Drone Launch from AUV Demonstrated
The demonstration showed that an unmanned aircraft, surface vessel and undersea vehicle can communicate and complete a mission cooperatively and autonomously.
Photos Used to Catalog Building Damage
The researchers have to train the algorithms to recognize scenes and locate objects in the images.
Standard Supports Safety of Surfing Simulator Attractions
Companies such as water parks that buy stationary wave systems will use the standard to help determine the safety of the system being considered.