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Preventing Errors on Food Labels
Food labeling errors have fast become both a costly and brand-damaging issue for food manufacturers. In fact, labeling issues are among the main reasons for food recalls in the first place.
Dyeing to Detect the ‘Lost’ 99 Percent of Ocean Microplastics
A fluorescent dye is used to bind to these particles, making them easily visible and quantifiable with a fluorescence microscope.
Resonant Microsystems Detect Disease, Brain Injury Biomarkers
Microelectromechanical resonators enable the sensitive, inexpensive detection of protein biomarkers associated with specific diseases and infections.
New Device Boosts Road Time for Tesla, Leaf Drivers
A switching device can enable batteries in these electric vehicles to work up to 50 percent longer.
Engineering Insight: Power Supply
This graph summarizes the search tendencies displayed by Engineering360 users for power supply products, with respect to the industry they identified with while registering.
Track to the Future: How Railways Are Getting Smarter
Railway operators are adopting digital technologies rapidly as they fight to attract passengers from low-cost airlines and private cars and compete with the increasingly automated road freight sector.
Watch: iDisc Produces up to 90% Less Brake Dust
The technology is based on a conventional cast-iron brake disc but also has a tungsten-carbide coating made exclusively by Buderus Guss, a subsidiary of German automotive supplier Bosch
Stung by SCANA, a Rural County Votes to Sue
Officials in a rural South Carolina county voted November 21 to sue the utility over its abandoned nuclear reactors, alleging they broke a contract that gave it special tax treatment.
Gas Processing Plant Is a Win for SNC-Lavalin
This is the sixth gas processing plant the Canadian-based company has built in the Delaware Basin in the last two years.
Different Alcohol Types Elicit Different Emotions, Study
As the holidays approach and we all prepare to overindulge in both food and drink, a recent study sheds light on how different types of alcohol might produce different emotional responses ranging from relaxed to aggressive.
How Immersion Heaters Maximize Upstream and Downstream Efficiency in Oil and Gas Applications (Part 2)
Electric immersion heaters are completely invaluable throughout the oil and gas industries. From the point of recovery, throughout the refinery and transportation stages and all the way until the fuel is spent, in some cases, electric process heating makes it possible.
Engineering Insight: Operator Safety
This graph summarizes the search tendencies displayed by Engineering360 users within the field of operator safety, with respect to the industry they identified with while registering.
Deep Learning for Diagnostic Medicine
A machine-learning method known as “deep learning,” which uses multi-layered artificial neural networks to automate data analysis, is also being used in ways that could aid diagnostic medicine.
Device Combines Energy Storage, Solar Energy and Hydrogen Production
An integrated solar-powered system for both electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis could be used to power electronics or produce fuel for hydrogen cars.
Proto Labs Reaches Agreement to Acquire RAPID, Expands Services with Sheet Metal Fabrication
Proto Labs is acquiring the New Hampshire-based custom parts supplier specializing in quick-turn sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining.
Socket Your 293 pin BGA Using Extreme Temperature Socket with Superior Electrical Performance
Ironwood Electronics has introduced a new BGA socket addressing high-performance requirements for Micro Controller Units.
Three Questions You Always Wanted to Ask An Airplane Pilot
What happens when you flush at 35,000 feet up? How does in-flight Wi-Fi work? What happens if a window breaks or a door opens?
SCANA Proposal Would Replace Its Abandoned Nuke
Shareholders would take a 50-year hit and the utility would buy a 540 MW gas-fired power plant and add 100 MW of solar.
This Test Track Will Challenge Autonomous Vehicles
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and the Virginia Department of Transportation are expanding an autonomous vehicle test facility known as the Virginia Smart Road.
How Climate Change Will Change How You Fly
As extreme weather events become more frequent due to climate change, airlines may have to rethink how they fly their passengers.