HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Cooling Towers: Design, Operation and Specifications

    Cooling towers are heat removal devices for industrial processes.

  • System Enables Independent Movement Despite Spinal Cord Injury

    Indego system helps to enable wheelchair-bound people to walk.

  • Petrochemical Refinery Anchors Training Center Expansion

    The simulated plant offers interactive demonstrations of hard-to-reach oil and gas applications.

  • Wristband Monitors Chemicals in Athlete Perspiration

    Berkley scientists’ wristband monitors sweat to keep athletes healthy.

  • Hybrid Scheme for Coal Power Emissions Cut and Efficiency Gain

    A hybrid gasification-fuel cell system could increase efficiency and halve emissions of coal-powered plants.

  • Biotech Breakthrough? Sunlight Produces Chemicals, Fuels

    A natural process that uses sunlight could both speed up and green up the production of chemicals and biofuels.

  • Extruded Film Offers High Voidage

    Work is underway to use the material in solar water heating for an energy efficient, lightweight domestic heating system.

  • Robotics Light Up Skin with Stretchability

    Electroluminescent skin stretches up to six times its size.

  • Tamper-Proof Tracking Device for Fleet Vehicles

    Wireless GPS tracking device is said to be tamper-proof.

  • Fishing for Ecology

    Amsterdam company turns floating plastic into boats.

  • Hand-Held Device Provides Early Warning of Leaks, Explosives

    Vaporsens has designed a prototype of a hand-held detector with an array of sensor materials that can identify a broad range of chemicals, as well as explosives.

  • Composite Metal Foams Offer Superior Heat Resistance

    The presence of air pockets inside CMFs makes them effective at blocking heat because heat travels more slowly through air than through metal.

  • Wireless System Charges Electric Vehicles at 3x Speed

    The researchers are already looking ahead to their next target of 50-kilowatt wireless charging, which would match the power levels of commercially available plug-in quick chargers.

  • Inexpensive Tunable Window Technology Developed

    Tunable windows aren’t new, but most previous technologies have relied on electrochemical reactions. The new technology uses geometry to adjust the transparency of a window.

  • Protecting the Grid by Bolstering Cybersecurity

    Through research initiatives and more robust standards, the U.S. aims to better protect against cybersecurity and resiliency vulnerabilities in the electric power grid.

  • Material Softens to Change Shape, Hardens to Stiffen

    In addition to displaying stiffness when it’s called for, and elasticity when a change of shape is required, the material also has the ability to self-heal following damage.

  • Webb Telescope Passes Cryo Tests, Now "Optically Complete"

    The testing is critical because at the instruments' final destination in space—one million miles from Earth—they will operate at minus-387 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • 2015 Renewable Investments Double That of Gas, Coal

    Global investment in new renewables capacity, at $266 billion, was more than double the estimated $130 billion invested in coal and gas power stations in 2015.

  • Floating Bridge Opens in Seattle

    The new span is one of only a handful of floating bridges in the world and solves the design challenge of building a safe and sturdy roadway over a deep body of water with a soft bottom.

  • New Membrane Could Boost Efficiency of Carbon Capture

    Tests show the hybrid membrane is eight times more carbon dioxide permeable than previous membranes.

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