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  • High Performance Bearings for the Fluid Power Industry

    GGB offers a range of high performance bearing solutions for demanding fluid power applications such as hydraulic pumps and motors.

  • ASCE Team Gathering Post-quake Resilience Data in Mexico

    The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) deployed a team of experts in Mexico City, Mexico, this week to gather information on infrastructure resilience in earthquakes in the wake of the 7.1 magnitude Sept. 19 earthquake.

  • Dream Chaser Spacecraft Completes Successful Gliding Flight Test

    The flight is an important milestone in preparing Dream Chaser for operational missions to supply the International Space Station.

  • Could This Bra Detect Breast Cancer?

    Julian Rios Cantu, 18, came up with the Eva bra, which uses biosensors that would measure temperatures, log them in an app and alert a user to any changes. Cancerous tumors may change the temperature of skin due to increased blood flow; the Eva bra would track that.

  • Puerto Rico Electric Grid Recovery Nears 50 Percent

    Some 3,000 additional workers are being mobilized, most of them through a Mutual Aid Agreement with APPA and EEI.

  • U.S. Lead in World Gas and Oil Seems Certain, IEA Says

    By the mid-2020s, the United States is projected to become the world’s largest LNG exporter, and a net oil exporter by the end of that decade.

  • Build an Innovative Monarch Butterfly Tracking Device

    The Monarch Butterfly Fund is offering a $50,000 cash prize to the individual or team that can conceptualize and develop an innovative tagging and tracking system.

  • Greensboro Transit Buys Electric Buses

    Over their 12-year lifetime, the buses are expected to generate maintenance and operations cost savings of more than $1.7 million.

  • Watch How Smart Paper Pinpoints Water Leaks

    ‘Smart’ paper infused with electricity-conducting nanomaterials can signal the presence of a leak by triggering an LED light or alarm system.

  • Microsoft to Cut Carbon Emissions

    Despite plans to expand its business, consequently upping its electricity requirements, Microsoft pledged on Tuesday to cut carbon emissions created by its operations by 75 percent by 2030.

  • DHL Plans $370m Expansion at Hong Kong Hub

    As one of three global hubs for DHL, the expanded facility will handle more than 40 percent of the company’s total Asia Pacific shipment volumes.

  • Preventing Pedestrian Bridges from Wobbling

    Because pedestrian bridge design differs from the auto and rail bridges, researchers from Georgia State University and the Volga State University of Water Transport in Russia have created a computer simulation to help prevent pedestrian bridges that wobble.

  • Experts Meeting in Geneva to Define "Killer Robots"

    Amid concerns that robots will, among other things, strip human decision making from military action, academics, government experts and advocacy groups are gathering for a week-long conference on the topic.

  • High EMI Shielding and Environmental Seal from Tech-Etch

    Supershield 1,000 series from Tech-Etch is a silicone or fluorosilicone elastomer gasket material that is filled with conductive metal particles to provide high EMI shielding and an environmental seal.

  • Expanding the PARADIGM® Shift in Grinding Technologies

    Norton Paradigm wheels provide the wear resistance and form holding of metal bond wheels and the profiling ease of vitrified bond wheels.

  • Using Nanoparticles to Treat Disease

    A nanoparticle delivery system that can delete disease-causing genes via CRISPR technology has shown promising results.

  • Perfect Acoustics in Greek Theaters: Just a Myth

    Ancient Greek theaters — at least three famous ones — do not live up to their claims of perfect acoustics.

  • In Need of a Rugged Visual Reference of Orientation?

    Inclinometers with precision tube and ball construction provide for the smoothest and most consistent visual reference of slope (or tilt), elevation or inclination of an object with respect to gravity.

  • Metal Nanocomposites May Tame Helium in Fusion Reactors

    The ability of nanocomposite solids to survive the impacts of helium in the core of a fusion reactor was evaluated.

  • Innovative Tool Provides Dual Milling and Clean Out Solution

    Well-Centric's Gate Valve Milling Tool provides access to restricted wells by drilling through stuck gate valves or other blockages.

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