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  • Warming Trend Prompts Action at 'Doomsday' Vault

    A water leak due to melting permafrost has triggered defensive action at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.

  • Drone Delivery for Loads up to 1 Ton? China Firm Says Yes

    JD.com Inc. reportedly plans to test the drones on a network it is developing to cover the Chinese province of Shaanxi. The drone would carry consumer goods to remote areas and farm produce to cities.

  • Consumers Energy Plans $440m Infrastructure Spend

    Upgrade projects are in infrastructure replacement, growth, and pipeline integrity across the company's Michigan service territory.

  • Watch: Mercedes-Benz is entering the US energy storage market. Honeywell signs a predictive analytics deal with a big air carrier. LEGO snaps together a renewable energy portfolio.

    Watch: Mercedes-Benz is entering the US energy storage market. Honeywell signs a predictive analytics deal with a big air carrier. LEGO snaps together a renewable energy portfolio.

  • U.S. and Swiss Chemical Companies Agree to Merge

    The combination will create a specialty chemical company with sales of approximately $13.2 billion, an adjusted EBITDA of $2.3 billion and a combined enterprise value of approximately $20 billion.

  • New Pipe Clamping Solutions

    Two new products are available for clamping pipe or tube in the hydraulic, pneumatic and HVAC/R industries.

  • Tool Re-faces Flanges with Phonographic Finish

    The manually operated hand tool re-faces damaged flanges and restores them to like-new condition with a phonographic finish.

  • Engineering Proteins to Stop Disease

    Researchers have turned ubiquitin, a staple protein in every cell, into a drug capable of thwarting viruses such as MERS.

  • Lock Shaft Collars with Self-Locating Feature

    A new self-locating feature for Stafford Manufacturing shaft collars permits fast and fully repeatable axial or radial positioning.

  • Furnace Waste Prevents Salt Deterioration of Roads

    A concrete mix that includes fly ash, slag, and silica fume is resistant to the erosive actions of road deicing salt.

  • Artificial Hair Sensors Could Enable “Fly by Feel”

    A sensor inspired by the hairs on bats and crickets assesses the external environment and changes maneuvers during flight.

  • Bullet-stopping Goo Created by U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet

    Combining shear thickening fluid, Kevlar and carbon fibers yields an anti-ballistic material.

  • Military UAVs Soar on Solar Power

    Combining autonomous soaring algorithms and solar photovoltaics enables long endurance flights of unmanned sailplanes.

  • Rolls-Royce Develops First Hybrid Subsea Crane

    The patented dual draglink subsea crane is designed to use either fiber or steel wire rope.

  • Can Diamonds Succeed Where Silicone Fails?

    Researchers at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science are studying transistors based on a much more durable material than silicone: diamonds.

  • Gates Introduces New Poly Chain® ADV™ Synchronous Power Transmission Belt

    Gates Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of power transmission belts , has introduced its next generation synchronous power transmission belt, the Poly Chain® ADV™. Due to the use of cutting-edge carbon fiber technology and a proprietary jacket material, the Poly Chain ADV is a narrower and more durable synchronous power transmission belt drive.

  • Apple CEO Tests Out Glucose Tracker

    Hoping to take the sting out of current methods of glucose testing, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been wearing a glucose tracker prototype paired with an Apple Watch.

  • Novel Organic 2-D Polymer for Energy Storage

    Scientists at the National University of Singapore have successfully created a 2-D polymer material that is an organic analog of graphene.

  • The Role of Couplings in Power Plants

    Have you ever thought about the components that are required to keep power plant equipment running in order to supply electricity to your house? One such component is a highly engineered mechanical power transmission component called a coupling.

  • A Sensor to Watch Your Appliances

    Detecting light, sound, vibrations, temperature, heat and electromagnetic signals from the appliances, the sensors use machine learning algorithms to determine what that data means in relation to how the appliances are being used.

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