HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Often No Reward for Innovative Women in the Workplace

    Employers are always on the lookout for the latest in innovation. But according to research, when that innovation comes from a female employee, that employee is less likely to be rewarded than if it had come from a man.

  • Richard Branson Predicts the Death of the 9-to-5 Workday and the 5-day Work Week

    Thanks to advances in technology, the five-day work week and two-day weekend will soon be a thing of the past, according to British entrepreneur Richard Branson.

  • 10 HVACR Technologies Selected as 2019's Most Advanced

    The Innovation Awards competition at the annual AHR Expo honors inventive and original products, systems and technologies across 10 categories.

  • A Tool for Converting Contaminated Lands into Renewable Energy Assets

    New updates to the mapping tool will help communities and developers site renewable energy on contaminated lands, landfills and mine sites.

  • Biomass for Plastic Produced without Soil, Fresh Water

    A new method for growing bioplastics promises to be more environmentally friendly than conventional bioplastic production.

  • Houseplant-Rabbit Gene Combo Cleans Indoor Air

    The pothos ivy was genetically modified to improve chloroform and benzene removal from indoor air.

  • Predicting the Accuracy of Sulfate Oxidation Reactions in Water Treatment

    The study should help provide a predictive path toward understanding increasingly more complex reaction mechanisms in environmental processes.

  • Saelig Introduces Flicker Spectrometer To Quantify Light Flicker Measurements

    This device can now measure the increasingly important parameter of light flicker in addition to the extensive range of standard photometric and colorimetric values already available.

  • Saelig Introduces IkaLogic SP2 Logic Analyzers

    The nine channel design allows 8-bit parallel data to be captured along with a clock or strobe signal at the maximum sampling rate without any trade-off between the number of active channels and the sampling rate.

  • New Directional Measurement Tool Achieves Vertical Well Profile within 4° of Azimuth

    NOV’s Tolteq TruVertical well monitoring system helped operators in India overcome geological disturbance and drill a vertical well profile. After traditional methods failed, including the use of stabilizers, controlled weight on bit and drill motor speed the client deployed NOV’s well monitoring system and coupled it with NOV’s 7/8 5.0 Vector™ drilling motor to steer the well back towards the target zone.

  • Earthrise: Apollo 8's Surprise Gift

    Astronaut William Anders might not have taken the iconic Earthrise image had the stars not lined up, figuratively speaking.

  • Jim Rogers: An Appreciation of the Former Duke Energy CEO

    As CEO of Duke Energy, his actions helped move energy efficiency into the mainstream of utility resource planning.

  • Bearing tolerances explained

    Bearing tolerances are an important concept for design engineers to understand. The American Bearing Manufacturers Association (ABMA) developed the ABEC tolerance standards for bearing manufacturers to follow when producing radial ball bearings.

  • Researchers to Create Algorithm for Detecting and Eventually Predicting Crime at Sea

    A surprising amount of crime takes place at sea, ranging from illegal fishing to drug smuggling and human trafficking. To detect, locate and eventually predict such activities, researchers from Oregon State University are developing new algorithms based on artificial intelligence and big data.

  • Plastic Pollution Discovered in Marianas Trench, the Deepest Spot on Earth

    Researchers are suggesting that it might be “one of the largest sinks for microplastic debris on Earth."

  • New Zero-Leak Check Valves Operate Reliably in Tough Conditions

    As companies involved in oil and gas exploration and production continue to push boundaries into deeper wells, a major challenge is the reliable operation of drilling, completion and production equipment under extreme environments.

  • Sempra Signs Taker for Proposed LNG Export

    The agreement is for 2 Mtpa of LNG, enough to meet about 15% of Poland's daily needs.

  • Engineers and Designers Manufacture Dress from Sustainable Wood Fibers

    The process, called Ioncell, creates textile fibers from materials such as wood, recycled newspaper, old cotton textiles and cardboard. These fibers are sewn into jackets, dresses, scarves and iPad cases.

  • Acquisition Expands Autodesk's Construction Offering

    BuildingConnected helps real estate owners and general contractors find and hire contractors for their projects.

  • Triangle Pump Components Introduces Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Spherical Valves

    Triangle Pump's WG Sphera series valves are built to last.

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