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How Industrial Gases Help Keep Food Fresh
Food-grade industrial gases are an effective and natural alternative that can be used to extend product shelf-life and reduce waste while the market shifts away from preservative-laden foods like processed meat and dairy products.
Girl Scouts, LinkedIn Partner on Alumni Network
Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) and LinkedIn recently launched a partnership called the Girl Scout Network, a section on the popular employment site for scouts new and old to gather and enhance career development.
Drug-releasing Hydrogel Tames Arthritis Flares
The hydrogel can be loaded with arthritis drugs and injected locally into an inflamed joint.
Watch: Space X Dragon, Floating Wind Farm and Drones Map Active Volcano
Space X Dragon, Floating Wind Farm and Drones Map Active Volcano. See them all in this week's Engineering360 newsbrief.
Researchers Develop Transparent Patch to Detect Dangerous Food Threats
Imagine not having to play a guessing game with foods that are dangerously close to their expiration date, but that still look and smell just fine. That is the aim for McMaster researchers who have developed a method for determining whether or not meat and other foods are safe to eat.
Medium-Voltage Process Heating for a Sustainable Future
Chromalox DirectConnect™ medium-voltage electric process heating systems are a novel solution that addresses large heating demands in power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical industries.
Goodbye, Gas Pump? An App that Will Bring the Gas to You
Taking a cue from an underground service that delivers fuel to boats, a Miami-based company has developed an app that would deliver gas to cars.
Pokemon Go Players Will Be Rewarded for Picking Up Trash on Earth Day
Niantic, maker of the Pokemon Go app, has found a way to focus users’ attention on this year’s Earth Day with a simple strategy of rewarding users who pick up garbage.
Steelmakers to Get New HBI Supplier with $700 Million Plant
Ohio will supply a Great Lakes market currently estimated at 3 million metric tons, much of which is currently supplied by imports.
When Nanoparticles Collide...
Researchers used supercomputers to model what happens when two nanoparticles smash into one another in a vacuum. What they learned could inform the development of a variety of new technologies.
Why Are Certain Metals Rare or Precious?
Rare earth elements and precious metals have desirable engineering properties or are useful alloying additives, but their availability impacts material cost and restricts usage. How did these elements come into existence? Why are some elements more abundant than others?
Physicists Design Model of Winter on Mars Based on Ice Particles
MIPT researchers and colleagues have developed a numerical model of Mars’ water cycle and winter.
Tiny Magnets, Enormous Potential
A research breakthrough allows the control of atomically-thin magnets with an electric field, offering the potential for exceptional power and efficiency in electronics technology.
Watch: Dutch Firm Completes Footbridge 3D Printed By Welding Robots
Dutch company MX3D announced on April 1 that it has completed a 3D-printed bridge at its workshop in Amsterdam.
Non-invasive Monitoring of White Blood Cells for Chemo Patients
The device requires no blood samples to help prevent life-threatening infections in patients receiving chemotherapy.
New Method For Producing Ammonia is Eco-friendly and Happens on the Small-scale
University of Notre Dame researchers are focusing on developing a new method that synthesizes ammonia using renewable energy.
University Boycotted Over 'Killer Robots'
In advance of next week's U.N. meeting to discuss 'killer robots,' over 50 experts in artificial intelligence (AI) from 30 different countries are boycotting a South Korean university for its relationship with weapons manufacturer Hanwha Systems.
Robotic Bee Project to Receive NASA Funding
Although bumble-bee sized, the robots are expected to be designed with cicada-sized wings, and aerospace engineers will reportedly work in conjunction with Japanese robotics teams to develop the flying bots.
Paper Mill Waste Repurposed as Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes
The cheap, abundant paper biomass was used as an effective sulfur donor/acceptor for high performance lithium–sulfur batteries.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Probability of Life on Other Planets
The system classifies planets in our solar system into five different types based on habitability.