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A quick guide to measuring pH in shampoo
pH values have an important role in hair and skin care. It's what's behind a recent trend to report this to consumers on labeling and packaging.
NORD direct drive systems outperform belt drives in efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness
Direct drive solutions offer an innovative alternative to traditional belt drives that deliver greater performance, reliability and lower total cost of ownership.
New at norelem: Linear roller guides
These include straight and curved linear guide rails made of bright, hardened steel and two variants of the matching roller carriages.
This appliance makes coffee out of thin air
Kara Water’s technology reportedly converts humidity from the air into drinking water. The company suggests that the technology can produce about a gallon of water in a day.
Doubling-down on algorithms improves drone detection, tracking
Be it over war-torn Ukraine or nighttime New Jersey, drone tracking is in high demand. Most monitoring occurs via cameras equipped with recognition algorithms, where recent advances may help fortify drone defenses.
December 2024: A very bad month for aviation
Hundreds of sightings of anxiety-inducing drones swept through the U.S. mid-Atlantic. Later, two large plane crashes would claim hundreds of lives.
TapX MTC — ANCA’s patented Motor Temperature Control (MTC) technology
The technology enables the production of consistently high-quality taps by addressing a key challenge — thermal growth.
Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. to exhibit energy-efficient and sustainable drive solutions for HVACR at AHR 2025
The company will showcase solutions to help heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) facilities operate more efficiently and sustainably.
Safe packaging materials for high-pressure food processing
HPP is a non-thermal food preservation method that uses extreme pressure, typically ranging from 100 to 600 megapascals (MPa), to inactivate microorganisms and pathogens in food.
Flexible manufacturing systems in beverage production
By incorporating FMS, beverage producers transform conventional lines into adaptable systems that handle a variety of products without extensive reconfiguration.
Vinny the vineyard robot will soon be picking grapes for wine production
The robot, aptly called ‘Vinny,’ is designed to help vineyard managers with labor shortages without sacrificing quality and attention to detail, its developers explained.
Altair RapidMiner unlocks next-level capabilities with advanced AI agent framework
The platform empowers users to seamlessly build and deploy advanced artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
SPEE3D’S Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing technology successfully prints metal parts in sub-zero environments
Tests confirm that the XSPEE3D system and Cold Spray Metal Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) equipment successfully operate in a sub-zero environment.
Hydraulic versus pneumatic components for industrial applications
By necessity, hydraulics components handle higher pressures, often in the range of thousands of PSI (pounds per square inch), whereas pneumatic system actuators aren’t as robust, and this statement can be backed by science.
Advances in pulsed field ablation for atrial fibrillation
Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is emerging as an alternative, using non-thermal electric fields to target cardiac tissue while reducing risks to surrounding structures.
Scanning electron microscopes for quality control
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a valuable tool for understanding what is happening to a material or biological sample at the sub-microscopic level.
Steel beams to sofas: The silent carbon sink of the technosphere
A large amount will end up in landfills, incinerated, or simply become litter.
A new path to board-level reliability
Discover how MacDermid Alpha’s reliability enhancement tool provides a head start into a larger journey along the path to board-level reliability.
New hydrogen-powered trains to roll in Germany
Hydrogen-powered trains are entering passenger service in the Berlin-Brandenburg and Bavarian regions.
Powering an oil refinery with solar energy
In an unusual merger of renewable energy and fossil fuels, solar energy is being tapped to power an existing oil refinery.