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How to measure negative pressure using a gauge pressure sensor
There are two types of pressure sensors used for negative pressure or vacuum pressure applications: gauge sensors or absolute pressure sensors.
DOE furnishes funds for fusion research
The funds support nine collaborative projects between DOE national laboratories and private industry aimed at overcoming challenges in fusion energy development.
Heavy-duty and customized shock absorbers, no matter where you are
Manufacturers and industrial applications face a need to diversify their supply lines — but not necessarily their suppliers.
Predicting the service life of rolling bearings
A new method improves predictions of remaining useful lifetime under defect progression.
Tool helps keep office workers safe from COVID-19
Researchers from Cornell University created a tool to help building managers, architects and designers adjust office spaces to a post COVID-19 world.
Smart foam to give robots self-repairing capabilities, sense of touch
Foam is self repairing, mimics human sense of touch.
Video: Addition of electrostatic footpads enable this robot to swerve, pivot
Robot is an enhanced version of a previously designed cockroach-like robot.
A Tactile Internet could one day allow users to reach out and 'touch' each other
For a person to touch something or someone remotely using the Tactile Internet, a user would wear a highly sensitive glove, stylus or other type of tactile device.
Radar beams eyed for networking and localizing moving objects
Passive tags and radar beams could monitor moving objects, people.
Free-standing enclosure offers greater versatility
The stand-alone solution is available in a wide range of sizes and with different material options in carbon steel and stainless steel.
Combination of drones, IoT sensors promises to improve wildfire detection
Network of drones and sensors could improve speed of detection, and thus containment.
First type 2 push-in surge protection
The devices are well-suited for protecting power distribution in subdistribution systems.
Decision support tool fosters irrigation system modernization
The software tool can help assess the costs and benefits of irrigation modernization.
Triple shaft mixers for hygienic processes
The mixers are easily adapted to challenging viscous applications requiring hygienic and sanitary handling.
Penn State "listened" to the sounds of COVID-associated lockdowns, re-openings
Team tapped into underground telecommunication fiber optic cables to listen to the sounds of COVID-related lockdowns, re-openings.
New method recycles hop waste into cellulose nanofibers
The stems and leaves which make up 75% of the biomass produced in hop production typically end up in landfills. A new method aims to repurpose such waste.
Video: Telescopic energy chain saves space on robots
Users can save space on the third axis of their robot, up to 83% weight, and high costs for retraction systems.
Video: Kit-style linear encoders for high accuracy positioning
The miniature three-field scanning sensor is offered with a variety of different frame designs.
Researchers striving to make computer servers more climate friendly
Algorithm promises to reduce energy and resource consumption of computer servers.
Video: Device treats stabbing victims
The device could be life saving for those with knife wounds.