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  • Watch: Restraining Order on 3D Printed Guns, Technology to Quit Smoking, Drone Specialized Landing Pad

    This week's edition of the Engineering360 news brief.

  • Novel Packaging Gives Food Waste the SLIPS

    A method for wicking chemically compatible vegetable oils into the surfaces of common extruded plastics results in super slippery industrial packaging.

  • Redesigned Endoscope Enhances Capabilities of Next-Generation Video Imaging Platform

    An image enhanced endoscopy platform captures brighter and sharper images by utilizing leading-edge CMOS chip-in-the-tip technology. The device features a one-step connector, contact-free technology and is available as a complete video imaging system with blue light imaging (BLI) and linked color imaging (LCI) light observation modes.

  • Nearly Half of the Waste Recovered from Vancouver, Victoria Shorelines Linked to Cigarettes

    Accounting for nearly half of the waste gathering on the Vancouver and Victoria shorelines is waste associated with smoking, according to a recent study from the University of British Columbia.

  • Studying Premature Birth Agents with a Placenta Barrier-on-a-Chip

    The device replicates the functions of a key placental membrane and could improve understanding of how bacterial infections promote preterm delivery.

  • Landmark Status Granted for Iconic Manhattan Tower

    The tower, with its distinctive broken pediment high above the street, was featured in the movie "Wall Street" as the office of Gordon Gekko.

  • Coal Transport Declined in 2017, Continuing a Trend

    Last year was the fourth consecutive year that U.S. coal consumption and coal shipments by all transport modes declined.

  • Recycling Li-ion Batteries with Old Mining Technology

    Tried and true technology used in the mining industry during the last century was adapted to selectively recover electrode materials from old batteries.

  • Nissan Sells Majority Stake in Its Battery Business

    A Shanghai-based buyer plans to integrate its IoT technology to make intelligent batteries and incorporate millions of electric vehicles into a future energy network.

  • Pythagorean Laser Measuring Device Launched on Kickstarter

    Para overcomes the limitations of traditional tape measures and current endpoint lasers.

  • Using AI to Locate Potholes

    University of Waterloo researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of locating potholes, making the process less expensive and more timely in terms of repair.

  • Researchers Using Lidar to Locate the Unmarked Graves of Murder Victims

    Law enforcement could soon get a helping hand locating the unmarked graves of murder victims thanks to lidar technology.

  • Build Your Own NASA Mars Rover

    The Raspberry Pi-based open source miniature Curiosity from JPL will be open to students, developers and hobbyists.

  • Entrepreneur Corner: AdaSky Introduces a Complete Sensing Solution for 24/7 Autonomous Driving

    AdaSky, an Israeli startup founded in 2016, developed a sensing perception solution called Viper that is perfectly suitable for autonomous vehicles.

  • PA Legislature Questions Rule of Capture

    Few things are certain in upstream exploration and production. Even when accurate models predict reservoir behavior, the potential exists for wellsite failures that force a well to be shut-in and abandoned. The financial risks of developing an oilfield manifest from a laundry list of unknowns. In an attempt to assure profit margins and maximize the ultimate estimated recovery, operators now turn toward extended laterals and hydraulic fractures, but doing that may now be seen as theft in Pennsylvania.

  • Video: Antibiotic-loaded Nanofibers Designed to Treat Chronic Wounds

    A new stimuli-responsive wound healing material has been engineered to release antibiotics and to enhance cellular growth and migration.

  • Chilean Firm Invents Shopping Bag that Dissolves in 5 Minutes, Not 500 Years

    Plastic products remain in the environment between 150 to 500 years once released, continuously polluting seas and rivers across the world. A Chilean startup announced the creation of a non-plastic biodegradable bag that dissolves in water in just five minutes.

  • Wildfire Burned This Co-op's Only Transmission Link

    Southern California Edison reported that several miles of line was down in extremely rugged country. “We’ve suffered the complete loss of our incoming transmission feed,” the co-op said.

  • V2X Network Heads to the Mountains

    By the end of 2018, as many as 100 roadside units will be in place along the I-70 Mountain Corridor from Golden to Vail, Colo.

  • JV Bags Two More Nukes for Fast Track Decommissioning

    The latest deal marks the second time in a week that the venture has signed on to decommission a U.S. nuclear power plant.

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