HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Data Show Puerto Rico's Ongoing Recovery from Its Long Blackout

    Electricity sales didn't recover to pre-Hurricane Maria levels until April 2018. Some 62,000 customers remain without power, EIA says.

  • Nalco Water Molecular Legionella Test Provides Results 14 T Faster

    The new quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) test can help building and cooling tower operators manage public health risks from the waterborne pathogen.

  • Cobalt Blockchain and DLT Labs Release Mintrax Blockchain Platform for Mineral Traceability

    The platform is designed to provide secure and transparent methods for tracking the provenance of metals and minerals through the entire mining supply chain, from source to end-user.

  • What Are Aluminum Discs and How Are They Made?

    Aluminum discs or circles in various sizes and thicknesses are commonly used to manufacture products, as well as for more creative uses.

  • Watch a 3D Simulation of a Snow Slab Avalanche

    Acknowledging that snow in this type of event behaves as both a solid and a fluid, researchers devised the first realistic and scientifically rigorous simulation of a snow slab avalanche.

  • Hyperion Launches a Blockchain-based Open Mapping Architecture to Decentralize Mapping

    The company plans provide the infrastructure to support a completely decentralized, self-governing global map that users anywhere can contribute to, edit or utilize for their own needs.

  • Xtalic Enters Electric Vehicle Market with Materials that Improve Battery Charger Connector Wear by Up to 40 Times

    The company has applied its Xtronic and Luna nanostructured alloys to lengthen the service lives of electric vehicle charger connectors.

  • Under Pressure: Engineers Face Larger Workloads, Tighter Deadlines

    Technological advances are changing the work environment for engineers, according to a new survey.

  • Reusable Lab-on-a-chip Device Relies on Sound Waves

    By getting biological fluids to surf on acoustic waves in oil, engineers have developed a technology for a small-scale, programmable biomedical chip that can be reused for applications from on-site diagnostics to laboratory-based research.

  • New Tool for Nuclear Fuel Pin Performance Assessment

    A microwave oven-sized mobile platform can see through and image spent nuclear fuel using gamma radiation.

  • 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.

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