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Clean Water, Big Price Tag
Water treatment infrastructure in the U.S. remains underfunded and underappreciated.
Shrimp Club Inspires Super Strong Composites
Shell-crushing tool inspires new class of composite materials.
Robotics Are Activated with Vacuum to Enhance Safety
Actuator mimics skeletal muscle movement and uses vacuum power to automate soft rubber beams.
Intelligent Machine Control Helps Reduce Operator Error
Intelligent machine control technology may help a Komatsu tracked excavator minimize operator human error.
Reversible Coordination Polymers Are Created
Light and heat are used to create coordination polymers.
Handheld Blood Assay Is a Fast Heart Attack Detector
Device diagnoses heart attack events in less than 10 minutes.
Research Team Develops Synthetic Opal Material
Color-changing material is made with common polymers.
3D-Printed Membranes Could Advance the Technology
University researchers say they could create almost any type of pattern quickly and inexpensively.
DOE Identifies Three Offshore Wind Projects for Funding
LEEDCo plans to install six 3.45-megawatt direct-drive turbines on Mono Bucket foundations seven miles off the coast of Cleveland in Lake Erie.
Designing More Durable Concrete
Today’s concrete is a random assemblage of crushed rocks and stones bound together by a cement paste.
Defining the Air Pollution’s Health Impacts
A 10-year study provides new information on the health impacts of particulates, nitrogen oxides, and black carbon.
Wearables May Help Predict and Prevent Asthma Attacks
Sensors might alert asthma sufferers when an asthma attack is imminent.
Porosity in Parts Produced Via Laser Powder-Bed Fusion Explained
Using a custom-built microscope setup, a vacuum chamber and an ultra-high-speed camera, Matthews’ team observed the ejection of metal powder away from the laser during the melting process.
Manufacturers to Boost Investment in R&D, Artificial Intelligence
More than one in five of KPMG’s survey respondents say they expect to spend more than 10% of revenues on R&D over the next two years.
Household Water Recycling System to Be Tested in Germany
At the core of the i.WET system is the separation of less and more heavily contaminated wastewater in the household.
Appalachian Coal Ash a Rich Source of Rare Earth Elements
The question of what to do with the nation's aging retention ponds and future coal ash waste has been a contentious issue.
UPS to Launch On-Demand 3D Printing Manufacturing Network
SAP customers will be able to digitize the part approval process through SAP, and their orders can be routed to UPS for production and delivery.
Exelon to Close Two Nuclear Generating Units
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz called the growing number of closures of nuclear reactors in competitive, deregulated markets a “huge problem.”
Predicting the Location of River Shifts on a Delta
Through experimentation, the researchers were able to confirm that the constant cycle of flooding was a key factor that contributes to locating where the next avulsion is likely to occur.
"Liquid Wire" Inspired by Spider Webs
Researchers have created composite fibers in the laboratory that extend like a solid and compress like a liquid, just like the spider's capture silk.