HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • OSHA Fines Are Set to Rise for First Time Since 1990

    Congress requires OSHA to make a one-time “catch-up” increase to compensate for more than two decades of no penalty increases.

  • Artificial Skin Offers Sense of Touch to Prosthetics

    Stanford University engineers have created a plastic skin-like material that can detect pressure and deliver a signal directly to a living brain cell.

  • Plans Take Shape to Mitigate the Effects of Space Weather

    A severe solar storm could disrupt the U.S. power grid for months, potentially leading to widespread blackouts, with damage costing more than $1 trillion.

  • Magnetic Sensor Could Lead to Smaller, Cheaper Sensors in Consumer, Industrial Apps

    Compared to existing sensors, the group's hybrid sensor displays much higher sensitivity to magnetic fields.

  • 3-D Concrete Printer Opens Design Possibilities for Construction

    Printing concrete allows designers to create fine concrete structures, potentially enabling builders to fabricate details as small as a pea.

  • Engineering for the Developing World: A Thresher for Tanzania

    Threshing grain by hand is a labor-intensive process, yet the high cost of mechanized threshers results in millions of people continuing to thresh by hand.

  • Virtual Reality Tool Is Immersed in Royal Navy Projects

    Multiple aspects of the construction and operation of ships ranging from an anti-sub vessel to an aircraft carrier will be tested in a virtual, digital world.

  • NTSB Says El Faro Wreckage Has Been Found

    The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says the vessel was located at a depth of about 15,000 feet in the vicinity of the last known position.

  • Small Business Index Remains Positive Despite Recent Slowdown

    The IHS national index has trended downward throughout the year and is now 0.50% below its 2015 high in February.

  • Light-Harvesting Gel Could Double Solar Panel Efficiency

    A gel that enhances solar cells' ability to absorb sunlight energy uses a mixture of biodegradable materials, including cow blood protein and fatty acid from coconuts.

  • Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete to Keep Skyscrapers Stable

    Design incorporates steel fibers into concrete mix to create coupling beams that equal or exceed performance of rebar designs.

  • Cryogenic Freezing Helps to Speed Cookie Production

    Cryogenic processing with liquid carbon dioxide or liquid nitrogen may offer advantages in speed, space and efficiency over other chilling or freezing methods.

  • Technique Can Join “Un-Weldable” Metals

    The pieces do not melt so there is no seam of weakened metal between them. Instead, the impact bonds the atoms of one metal to atoms of the other.

  • Engineering Is the Profession Most Vital to Economic Growth, Survey Finds

    Profession eclipses business leaders, lawyers, doctors and teachers are most important, according to the Create the Future Report.

  • "Super Ceramics" Could Cut Jet Engine Weight and Boost Thrust

    CMCs could allow designers to increase jet engine thrust by 25% and decrease fuel consumption by 10% by 2020.

  • Method for Packing Natural Gas Into Fuel Tanks Could Open Up Passenger Car Market

    Chemists at the University of California Berkeley have developed a way to store methane that they claim could speed the development of natural gas-powered cars that do not require the high pressures or cold temperatures of the current compressed (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles.

  • Fundamentals of Cooling Tower Heat Transfer – Part 1

    The first of a three-part series that examines the basics of cooling tower heat transfer and outlines methods to keep towers clean.

  • Printing Is Poised to Enter the Fourth Dimension

    The worldwide 4D printing market could exceed $60 million by 2019 and experience a greater than 40% compound annual growth rate.

  • Entergy to Close Another Nuclear Power Plant

    Entergy Corp. will close the single-unit, 838 MW James A. FitzPatrick nuclear station in New York in late 2016 or early 2017. The plant has operated since 1975.

  • Innovative Camera Can See Radiation Emitted by Nuclear Reactors

    The state of nuclear reactors can be monitored in near real time, giving information on the state of the nuclear core that is independent of installed instrumentation.

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