HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Automated quality control system launched by SICK

    SICK’s new MQCS (Modular Quality Control System) is a multifunctional machine vision system, delivered as a ready-to-use package of hardware and pre-written software.

  • Researchers deploy tool for securing the software supply chain

    A team of researchers from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering has launched the first version of its open-source tool to prevent cyberattacks on supply chain software.

  • Microbial fuel cell improves wastewater treatment sustainability

    A sustainable wastewater treatment system relies on electron-producing microbial communities to clean the water.

  • Entities rely on creativity to reuse masks amid COVID-19 supply chain shortages

    These entities have discovered creative ways to reuse masks amid pandemic-related supply chain shortages.

  • Watch: Specimen collection tube decapping now automated

    The pre-analytical function of decapping a specimen collection tube can now be automated.

  • Video: Gas turbine system to make speedy debut in Germany

    New power plant technology from GE is being tapped to provide a critical gas-power reserve in Germany’s reliability-challenged southern region.

  • Marines take aim at robots

    Robots shriek, fall when hit during target practice.

  • Army seeks to develop 'muscular' robots

    Muscle-bound robots to offer the military improved flexibility.

  • Video: Nuclear waste storage container integrity testing underway

    Three stainless steel storage canisters are being equipped with heaters and instrumentation to simulate nuclear waste and determine salt accumulation with time.

  • Video: Will it kombucha?

    The Reactions team breaks down kombucha's chemistry and investigates which ordinary beverages they can turn into kombucha.

  • Video: Bombarding cancer cells with microbubbles

    Microbubbles can target tumor sites with cancer drugs and avoid detrimental effects to healthy tissues.

  • Watch: Fever sensor cleared for inclusion in injectable cardiac monitor

    The injectable device designed to help cardiologists detect and diagnose cardiac arrhythmias remotely now has an additional role in monitoring for signs of fever.

  • Manufacturing hydrogen in microbial factories

    Droplet-based microbial factories produce hydrogen instead of oxygen when exposed to daylight in air.

  • UK fueling jets with household waste, alcohol

    U.K. Air Force to fuel jets with grass, alcohol, waste.

  • Team develops anti-counterfeit tech for luxury items

    Incorporated into the ink of anti-counterfeit tags, the nanoparticles could be revealed with a magnet.

  • Video: Earring enables glucose monitoring in style

    A non-invasive blood glucose monitoring approach based on a fashionable wearable device replaces the finger prick sting with bling.

  • Watch how CRISPR and smartphone tech combine to detect COVID-19

    The diagnostic uses a smartphone camera to provide accurate results in under 30 minutes.

  • Hydrokinetic energy tech takes a bite out of SHARKS

    Eleven energy project developers have taken the bait offered by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Submarine Hydrokinetic and Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems (SHARKS) program.

  • Watch: Floating port/installation vessel to streamline offshore wind development

    The safety risks inherent in constructing offshore wind farms can be reduced with a floating port and installation vessel engineered by Windthrust Ltd.

  • LG announces new UV sanitizing robots

    UV robot promises to disinfect high-traffic surfaces.

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