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Watch: To lower CSP cost researchers say just add salt!
Scientists are turning to chloride salts, which can be heated to 750° C, possibly boosting efficiency and driving down CSP costs.
Minimizing pump cavitation: What is the ideal NSPH margin?
Learn about the damaging phenomenon known as cavitation in pumps and how to avoid it by designing systems with sufficient NSPH margin to provide acceptable pump performance and service life.
Olympus DSX1000 Digital Microscope: Advanced tools for faster analysis
Measure and observe a variety of materials with guaranteed high- and low-magnification accuracy and precision using a single instrument.
Self-driving truck startup begins freight deliveries in Texas
The move to self-driving trucks comes just 16 months after the company was formed.
Study: Wearable sensors could prevent stillborn births
Using the same commercial, orientation-detection sensors as those in smartphones, the device records heartbeat vibrations emitting from the mother’s abdomen.
Better welding of aluminum: Strength and thermal stress
The third and final part in Welding Digest's series on aluminum welding.
Wearable pet devices threaten family privacy
Designed to track a dog’s location, health data and activity, among other details, the research team warns that the data is also being used to create owner profiles.
Study: Workers would prefer to lose their job to a robot instead of to another human
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich and Erasmus University Rotterdam are suggesting in a series of new studies that employees would prefer losing their jobs to robots rather than being replaced by other human employees.
This innovation may reduce the cost of water desalination
Ionic liquids are liquid salts that bind to water. The researchers said this makes them useful in forward osmosis to separate contaminants from water.
Improve jacketed heating systems with direct steam injection
Despite jacketed heating's underlying desirable attributes, steam presents several problems for its applications.
Researchers predict FDA food recalls from customer reviews and AI
The researchers examined almost 1.3 million food product reviews on Amazon.com, and matched over 5,000 of the reviews to products that had been recalled by the FDA between 2012 and 2014.
New vacuum dehydrator maintains the integrity of synthetic oils in large hydraulic systems
Schroeder’s newest fluid conditioning product consists of a claw vacuum pump that helps avoid the generation of any dangerous, chemically reactive by-products and it features a flow rate of 30 gallons per minute.
In conversation: A framework for addressing technology's ethical challenges
Our communities and the world face unprecedented challenges in scaling technologies in an ethical and beneficial way. As one observer noted half a century ago, “technological progress requires ethical progress or we risk the destruction of society.”
Ultrasound-triboelectric combo powers medical implants
A triboelectric generator converts externally applied ultrasound into an internal electricity source capable of recharging an implant's battery.
Team of engineers and chemists develop artificial tongue for distinguishing among whisky types
Engineers and chemists from Scotland’s University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde have developed an artificial tongue to accurately distinguish among a variety of whiskies.
VW engineering scandal tarnished other German automakers
The scandal tarnished other German auto manufacturers through their association with Volkswagen, consistent with the notion of a collective reputation.
Biomechanical, seahorse-inspired tail improves human balance and movement
Called Arque, it is inspired by the tail of a seahorse and uses compressed air along with four artificial muscles built into the vertebrae of the tail to move around.
Zygo's newest ZeGage non-contact, 3D optical profilers
The company said that the two new models, ZeGage Pro and ZeGage Pro HR, offer up to two times the improvement in data points, a 50% larger maximum field of view and increased measurement speed with simplified setup when compared to previous generations.
Custom, small-scale barrier pouch packaging from automation startup
Although Keto Farms’ manufacturing facility processes up to 9,000 barrier pouches per day, they are a medium-sized business and large-scale, expensive industrial solutions were impractical.
Training, command errors led to fatal collision involving USS McCain
The NTSB said the probable cause was a lack of effective operational oversight of the destroyer by the U.S. Navy, which resulted in insufficient training and inadequate bridge operating procedures.