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Watch: Road tire component implicated in salmon mortality
Coho salmon death in the Pacific Northwest is linked to a chemical widely used to protect tires from ozone.
Team devises method for improving 3D-printed food
Team to improve the taste, look and feel of 3D-printed food.
Biochar removes drug residues from reclaimed wastewater
The utility of biochars produced from cotton gin waste and guayule bagasse in adsorbing three common pharmaceutical compounds from an aqueous solution was evaluated.
Robotic kitchen will now prep meals in the home
This robot will cook for you, but it will cost you.
Introducing the Tigron by Auma
The continuously evolving world of industrial automation and digitization continues to amaze with Auma’s latest innovation being no exception.
Sorting with unfailing precision
The young company Unchained Robotics uses ifm's 3D sensor O3D to automate sorting and pick and place tasks by robot.
Watch: Get to climate goals by extending nuclear plant life
Extending the life of existing nuclear power plants increases the availability of reliable low carbon power and accelerates attainment of climate goals.
Adsorbent created to clean copper from water
A zinc imidazole salicylaldoxime supramolecule adsorbent was demonstrated to target and trap copper ions from wastewater with precision and speed.
Software solutions for engineering to order
Unlike made to order, which starts with fixed design specifications, engineering to order includes the entirety of the design process.
Study: Multicaloric materials can fuel cooling efficiency
The effects of simultaneously exposing certain alloys to magnetic fields and mechanical stress were explored in pursuit of refrigeration systems based on such multicaloric materials.
Watch: Mapping platform reveals global soil carbon potential
Users can model how soil organic carbon has fluctuated over the last 11,000 years and project future carbon-storing capacity.
Students operate robotic arm from the comfort of their homes
Students operate a robotic arm from home.
Pandemic indirectly increases UK plastic recycling
A change in work, school and eating habits has increased household plastics recycling by up to 20%, according to a U.K. charity.
NY State enacts PFAS burning ban
The incineration of firefighting foams in urban communities has led to local contamination with 'forever' chemicals.
GE ups the capacity of its onshore wind turbine platform
The new addition to the Cypress platform increases annual energy production by up to 11% over previous turbine models.
Synthesis of lanthanide nitride foams as safer nuclear fuels
A combustion synthesis process developed for lanthanide metals could lead to the formulation of sustainable substitutes for commonly used uranium dioxide.
Ford begins testing lidar sensors in self-driving truck pilot
The company will use Velodyne’s H800 solid-state lidar in its autonomous truck development.
Watch: The end of the Arecibo era
The end of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico came sooner than expected: the 305 m radio telescope collapsed on December 1, 2020.
Prototype bandage sensor monitors wound healing
Bandage could one day expedite wound healing.
Celebrate! It is the first World Nuclear Energy Day
The date was selected in recognition of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the start-up of the first electric power reactor in the U.S.