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  • Modular Construction Offers Efficiency and Cost Savings

    Compared with traditional buildings, which are fully constructed on-site, manufactured modular buildings offer many advantages.

  • New Portable Field Sensor Accurately Measures Harmful Minerals in Soil

    The tool could open up a new way for farmers or researchers that can’t afford expensive lab equipment to determine the mineral content of soil.

  • Rapidly Removing BPA from Water Using a Cheap Catalyst

    Carnegie Mellon University has developed a method to break down harmful chemicals in water

  • Hyperloop Reaches 192 mph in Phase 2 Testing

    Two weeks after completing the first test on its 1640-foot test track in Nevada, Hyperloop One set a new speed record during phase 2 testing on July 29, 2017. The ultrafast transportation system traveled 1,433 feet at 192 miles per hour, nearly three times faster and four times longer than results during phase 1 testing.

  • Diesel Cars to Get New Emission Software in German Deal

    Automakers will fit some 5.3 million diesel cars with new software to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 25-30%.

  • The Role of Valves in Your Gas Log Fireplace

    Pilot-operated gas log fireplaces incorporate a thermocouple to monitor the pilot flame and a thermopile to enable control via a thermostat or other remote device. The thermocouple senses the gas pilot flame and prevents flow to the main burners when there is inadequate heat to ignite the burner. The thermopile powers a second circuit that operates the main valve. A brief understanding of how the thermocouple and thermopile work and what can go wrong will help troubleshoot a valve that is malfunctioning.

  • Sinking, Leaning Tower Remains Safe, Study Says

    A 58-story residential tower in San Francisco that is tilting sinking at the rate of 1 inch a year remains safe, according to a report by three engineering consultants.

  • Dual Nutrient Removal from Agricultural Runoff

    Woodchip-filled trenches have proven effective in removing nitrate from tile drainage water and were recently tested for the removal of phosphorus.

  • Building Nextgen Satellites in Colorado

    Lockheed Martin's Gateway Center, slated for completion in 2020, includes a high bay clean room capable of building a spectrum of satellites from micro to macro.

  • City Trees: Not Only for Aesthetics

    While trees are an important part of a city’s landscape—providing shade, greenery and homes for birds and smaller animals—trees also provide a significant function beyond aesthetics: preventing energy loss.

  • After 40 Years, the Voyagers Continue

    A look at the past, present and future of Voyager 1 and 2 — humanity's farthest-reaching and longest-lived spacecraft.

  • Facial Recognition Technology Being Tested at Berlin Train Station

    In an effort to improve security throughout the country, German authorities are conducting a test of automated facial recognition technology in Berlin.

  • Gender Parity Progress at MIT

    An examination of gender parity in mechanical engineering at MIT, which far surpasses the national average.

  • New Product: Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick

    Intel® just announced the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick (NCS). This is a fanless deep learning device that is used to learn artificial intelligence (AI). The USB 3.0 drive is powered by a low-power MovidiusTM Visual Processing Unit (VPU), a device driving millions of smart cameras, industrial vision machines and intelligent drones. The device can translate trained neural networks in a PC to an App embedded in the Movidius stick. The neural networks include the Caffee, the deep learning framework developed by Berkeley AI Research (BAIR).

  • New Battery Technology Could Make a Household Battery Suitable for Large Grid Storage Applications

    Researchers claim this is the first time a calcium hydroxide interlayer has been used to block zinc ions in batteries.

  • Nanoparticles for 3D Printing in Water Opens New Opportunities in Healthcare Market

    A semiconductor-metal hybrid is used as photoinitiators to enable chemical reactions in water in additive manufacturing.

  • Video: New Device Allows for More Efficient Automatic Part Loading and Unloading

    North Star Imaging has announced a new add-on device called RobotiX for standard and existing NSI X-ray and Computed Tomography (CT) systems for automatic part loading and unloading.

  • A New Wave of Space Applications

    A new business partnership is behind the launch of CASPA, the world's first free-flying, on-orbit demonstration for cold atom-based science missions.

  • Mohawk Spring Proves Design Expertise Leads to Reduced Costs

    For providers of military components, quality is the top priority. When parts don't meet standards, production is delayed, or worse, the device could fail in the field.

  • DTE Energy Seeks OK to Build an 1,100 MW Power Plant

    The almost $1 billion project will be built at a cost of around $860 per kilowatt and is scheduled to break ground in 2019.

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