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  • Audi and Hanergy Team Up for Thin Film Solar R&D

    The two plan to present an Audi vehicle prototype featuring an integrated solar roof by the end of 2017.

  • Test Strip Can Determine Blood Alcohol Content Within Two Minutes

    Measuring a user's saliva, the Promilless informs the user within two minutes if they are fit to drive a car or not.

  • Swimming, Flying, Walking in the Holodeck

    Freely-moving animals exploring a virtual-reality system give scientists new insights into brain function.

  • The Truth About the Chemicals in Your Sunscreen

    Trader Joe’s Nourish Spray Sunscreen, with an SPF of +50 (experts recommend using a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher for daily use), comes in at number two on the Consumer Reports list.

  • Video: Using Yeast and Human Waste to Produce Parts for Deep Space Missions

    Repurposing molecules to convert them into items such as plastics, polyesters and nutrients.

  • Watch: The Future of Car Parts

    A new extrusion process may make magnesium, the lightest of all structural metals, feasible for use in car parts. The process eliminates the need to incorporate rare-earth elements to impart structural strength.

  • Orion Spacecraft Powers Up for the First Time

    Lockheed Martin and NASA test the next-generation human space capsule.

  • Chemical Companies Put a New Emphasis on Sustainability

    The chemical industry has been at the forefront of progress in essentially every aspect of society from agriculture and food production to health and medicine to manufacturing and energy. The driving force behind the green initiatives is the recognition that this progress has come at a high cost.

  • Innovative Building Materials that will Impact Future Architecture

    As reinforced concrete was innovative in the earlier 19th century, the latest building materials look to further capitalize on what is possible by incorporating shape-memory alloys, bendable concrete composites, self-healing materials and electrochromic glass.

  • Hot Stick Detects DC Voltage in Solar Arrays and EVs

    Exposure to high voltages is increasingly commonplace as technologies such as hybrid cars, EVs and solar panel arrays, all of which contain large amounts of DC power, gain traction.

  • DOE Funds Coal Projects for Rare Earth Element Recovery

    Four projects will share $17.4 million to move to a second phase of research in efforts to advance recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts.

  • Watch: Repair Work Moves Ahead at Oroville Dam Site

    Demolition, excavation, and site preparation is 99 percent complete for the 2,270 feet that will be reconstructed this year.

  • Ford Signs MOU to Develop EVs with China Partner

    Ford says it expects the market for NEVs in China to grow to six-million units per year by 2025, of which approximately four-million vehicles will be all-electric.

  • Testing Composite Aircrafts

    Recently demonstrating the technology at the 13th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, the detector relies on a combination of data processing algorithms and thermal tomography and defectometry to operate.

  • Fish Size Expected to Experience Climate-Change-Related Decrease

    According to researchers, the size reduction in fish can have far-reaching implications on fisheries and among organisms in the ecosystems.

  • How to Select the Right Coating for Your Garage Floor

    Protecting garage floors with a coating, paint, or sealer can preserve and improve the lifespan of a new floor or restore an aging surface to full functionality. A wide range of products is available, from two part epoxy coatings to latex acrylic paints.

  • Hi-Performance Fastening Systems: More Than Just a Fastener Supplier

    Although well-known in most industries for their high-quality parts, Hi-Performance has a reputation for offering more than just parts.

  • 12 Volts: All the 12-volt Car Accessories You Could Ever Want

    The 12-volt outlet in your car can do more than charge your mobile phone or power your GPS. It seems that this convenient receptacle can be used for just about anything you could want, so here are some products you didn’t know you needed.

  • Efficiencies Improve for Natural Gas Power Plants, EIA Says

    Annual average heat rates of natural gas-fired electricity generators fell 7% from 2006-2015 as heat rates of coal-fired electricity generators rose 1%.

  • Pneumatic Actuator for Diaphragm Valves in Sterile Service

    The actuator can be fitted to the valve body without nuts as the threads are integrated in the body to simplify mounting.

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