HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Crash Reporting Rules Issued by UK for Autonomous Vehicles

    Transport department requires self-driving cars to record data such as speed, brake use and whether the car was operating in manual or automated mode.

  • Minimizing Liability Risk in Engineering Product Design

    Design engineers can implement a series of risk mitigation techniques to protect their companies from lawsuits and end users from harm.

  • Tougher Ceramics for High Temperature Applications

    Research could yield ceramics that can withstand both extreme heat and collisions.

  • Cryogenic Rocket Engine Hot-Tested in India

    Successful test was the 10th in a series and next will involve high-altitude conditions.

  • New Alloy Could Offer a 120-Year Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessel

    Parts cast from a 450-tonne ingot and shaped into a weld-less shell.

  • Smart Headlights Introduced by Ford Germany

    Camera-based lighting system uses adaptive front lighting and traffic sign recognition systems to read route signs and widen the beam at unlit intersections.

  • Strut Failure Suspected in SpaceX Rocket Explosion

    Preliminary assessment offered as probe into the June accident continues.

  • Test Track for Autonomous Vehicles Opens in Michigan

    Simulated city will test vehicle reactions to a range of scenarios.

  • Fake! Combatting the Global Rise of Counterfeit Bearings

    The manufacture of counterfeit bearings is on the rise and is negatively affecting an otherwise healthy global industry.

  • Single-Phase Transformers Information

    Single-phase transformers accept single-phase alternating current (AC) power and output single-phase AC power, typically at a higher or lower voltage level.

  • Siting Wind Farms More Quickly and Less Expensively

    MIT-developed model predicts wind speeds more accurately with three months of data than others do with 12.

  • Vibration Measurement Instruments and Analyzers:Specs and Apps

    Vibration measurement instruments and vibration analyzers measure, display, and analyze vibration. Vibration analysis is used to detect early precursors to machine failure, allowing machinery to be repaired or replaced before expensive failure occurs.

  • IHS Says Oil Sands Will Remain a Leading Source of Supply

    Oil sands growth is expected to add an additional 800,000 barrels per day of new production by 2020, keeping Canada as the world's third largest source of supply growth.

  • Oil Price Decline Will Dampen Demand for Oil Field Chemicals, IHS Says

    Driven largely by the expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014.

  • Sealing Machines: Operations, Specifications and Applications

    Sealing machines close and seal an individual package or provide a long continuous horizontal or vertical seal.

  • Graphene-Based Film 4x Better Than Copper for Cooling Electronics

    Graphene composite beats copper for cooling chip.

  • Supplements Help Yeast Survive, Produce More Ethanol

    Research finds supplements help yeast survive, boosting biofuel production.

  • IBM Research Alliance Produces Industry’s First 7nm Node Test Chips

    IBM produces the first 7nm node test chips with functioning transistors with partners Globalfoundries and Samsung.

  • Specifying Hydrostatic and Hydrodynamic Bearings

    Hydrostatic bearings and hydrodynamic bearings rely on a film of oil or air to create a clearance between the moving and stationary elements.

  • 3D Printed Soft, Hopping Robot

    Using a 3-D printer, Harvard researchers create an autonomous soft machine.

    • Advertisement
    Advertisement
    ◄12...11081109111011111112...11561157►