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Cool Idea Award: Healthcare grant from Protolabs spurs a pair of creative feeding tube inventions
The MedStar Health device improves NICU feeding while the Cleveland Clinic Innovations' feeding tube enhances quality of life for patients.
Holey photovoltaics! Making silicon solar cells transparent
Punching microholes in crystalline silicon wafers imparts transparency to solar cells and opens new applications in building-integrated photovoltaics, vehicles and personal electronics.
Novel HVAC and building efficiency projects are targeted by Oak Ridge
The Energy Department said that the 127 million buildings in the United States consume nearly 40% of the nation’s total energy at a cost of $415 billion annually.
Chevron approves $5.7 billion high-pressure deepwater project
The Anchor Field is located in the Green Canyon area, some 140 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in water depths of around 5,000 ft.
Watch: Safety engineers use high-speed cameras to capture arc fault explosions
Data from the Sandia-led tests will enable development of a computer model that will predict an arc fault’s zone of influence.
Blue Origin successfully completes reusable booster flight for the 6th time
The New Shepard vehicle has used the same two boosters for each flight.
Startup churns out a cross-country butter run in a self-driving truck
Plus.ai carried a truck full of Land O’Lakes butter more than 2,800 miles across the U.S.
MOFs effectively capture carbon from wet flue gas
A data mining approach was used to identify MOF materials and structures that maintain CO2 selectivity in the presence of water.
Researchers turning agricultural waste into car parts
Researchers from the University of Alicante in Spain are attempting to turn agricultural waste into car parts.
DARPA seeks proposals for safety suits inspired by shark skin
Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are calling for the development of shark-skin inspired suits to protect soldiers, researchers and first responders against chemical and biological weapons.
The underlying goals of preventive maintenance
The primary goal of preventive maintenance is to avoid machine breakdowns, but it is not the only goal.
Bars and stripes forever: How bar codes changed supply chains
Unlike many innovations, the idea of bar codes was not one where potential users had to be convinced that they needed this better mousetrap. Instead, the incentive included pleas by retailers for a better system of inventory control and checkout.
RPI and NASA working on robotic arm to refuel space satellites
Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in collaboration with NASA are attempting to develop a robot capable of refueling satellites in space before they become inoperable and inevitably add to mounting space debris.
Watch the flight of the first commercial electric plane
An all-electric commercial passenger aircraft fitted with a lithium battery backed propulsion system has taken its inaugural flight.
Team creates nontoxic, biodegradable adhesive from plants and food
Scientists at Purdue University have created a biodegradable, nontoxic adhesive using compounds from foods and plants.
Atlas Copco expands intelligent vacuum pump series for robust processes
The pump series is accompanied by a new app that enhances the remote monitoring and intelligence of vacuum pumps.
A deep geothermal plant in Eden secured
A 10 year campaign secured £16.8 million in funds to complete the first phase of Eden’s geothermal heat and power project.
Watch: Design flaw, rules loophole cited in fatal helicopter accident
The tail of the front passenger’s harness tether caught on the helicopter’s fuel shutoff lever, resulting in a loss of engine power at an altitude of 1,900 feet.
Researchers use acoustics to gather microplastics in the wash
Researchers at Japan’s Shinshu University have created a new technique for removing microplastics from washing machines using acoustics.
DOE puts dollars toward pebble bed-reactor design work
The project will focus on cutting costs through underground construction, the use of pooled off-site resources and simplified passive safety systems.