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  • Tall Timber Building Tops Out in Norway

    The Mjos Tower will include apartments, an indoor swimming pool, a hotel, offices, a restaurant and common areas.

  • Aflac Begins Rollout of Robot Ducks at Children's Cancer Hospitals

    Robotic therapy ducks from Aflac are beginning to debut at children’s cancer hospitals in the United States in an effort to draw attention to National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

  • Rogers Corporation Unveils Robust Plasma Spray Tape for Aircraft Engine and Other Mission-critical Applications

    The silicone rubber-impregnated glass fabric tape provides maximum protective masking during plasma and flame spraying of aircraft engine components, turbo charger wear components and medical implants.

  • Prejudice: Not Just for Humans, but for Robots Too

    To demonstrate that prejudice can easily be taught to artificially intelligent machines, computer scientists and psychology experts from MIT and Cardiff University conducted a series of experiments where autonomous machines were instructed in copying, learning and identifying prejudice.

  • Fuel Efficient, Quieter Flight with New Shape Memory Alloys

    High-temperature, shape-memory alloys could enhance fuel efficiency of jet engines and reduce airplane noise over residential areas.

  • Watch: An Automated Two-speed Transmission for Electric Vehicles

    A production-ready, automated two-speed transmission for electric mobility applications was engineered in combination with an integrated powertrain architecture.

  • Fluoropolymer Insulation Tailored to the Most Important Extreme Application: Yours

    Extreme, critical and harsh environments like those found in aerospace, industrial, and oil and gas applications call for a high-performance insulating film solution: Saint-Gobain FLUOROWRAP.

  • Morandi Bridge Is Leaning on Nearby Buildings and Will Be Removed

    The risk of collapse on parts of the Italian bridge that remain standing stands at 4 out of a maximum of 5, news reports say.

  • Harnessing the Power of Smartphones in Pregnancy Research

    Because pregnancy is different from person to person, pregnant women have long been underrepresented in biomedical research.

  • Airlines in Race to Offer World's Longest Flights

    Qantas Airlines has recently announced its intention to offer the world’s longest non-stop commerical flight, for a record 20 hours and 20 minutes — well surpassing Singapore Airlines's 18 hours and 45 minutes flight announced earlier this year.

  • Sea Machines Upgrades to Larger Work Space to Meet Demand

    The company is developing autonomous controls and perception technology for marine vessels.

  • Spacecraft Will Snatch a Piece of an Asteroid and Return it to Earth in Daring Maneuver

    OSIRIS-REx will return the largest specimen from space since the moon rocks of the Apollo era, shedding light on the early formation of the solar system and possibly the origin of life.

  • Lock In Premium Rates for a Decade with IEEE Member Group 10-year Level Term Life

    Level term coverage is one of the most straight-forward and economical types of life insurance available, especially when you have the additional money-saving capabilities inherent in a group plan.

  • DNA Taken from Shark Tooth to Identify Type of Shark Responsible for Biting Two Teens in Waters off Long Island this Summer

    Following word that two teenagers were bitten within mere minutes of each other off the beaches of New York’s Fire Island this past July, officials sprung to action, hoping to dispel concerns that the waters were teeming with great white sharks ready to strike.

  • Wind and Solar Assets Change Hands in $1.275b Deal

    NextEra Energy Partners is buying 11 wind and solar projects with around 1,388 MW of generating capacity for $1.275 billion.

  • Startup Builds Printer Capable of Printing Customized Pet Meds

    Using technology created at Purdue University, startup Pinpoint Pharma will soon be printing customized pet medicine.

  • Cost Issues Must Be Met for Nukes to Remain Viable, MIT Study Says

    The MIT Energy Initiative study analyzes the reasons for a "global stall" of new nuclear energy capacity and discusses steps to reverse that trend.

  • Watch: Urban Wind Turbine Wins 2018 U.K. James Dyson Award

    Two students at Lancaster University received the prize for engineering the O-Wind Turbine, configured to harness the relatively untapped resource of urban winds.

  • Teaching TVs to Better Understand Queries, Voice Commands

    Thanks to new research from the University of Waterloo, home entertainment platforms will soon better understand user queries.

  • Universal Robots Can Be Found Everywhere at IMTS

    In addition to the presentation at the Universal Robots booth, more than 20 other IMTS exhibitors will also feature applications of the company's characteristic light-blue collaborative robot arms in their displays.

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