HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Boeing Cuts Engineers as Aircraft Sales Slow

    Boeing has cut its Washington workforce by 9% to 70,640 employees over the past year. The company’s total headcount has shrunk 7.6% to 146,962 since March 2016.

  • Smart Healthcare Uses Stats to Spot a Stumble

    Falls by elderly people can cause serious injury or death if sufferers remain on the ground for too long.

  • When Job is Done, Orthopedic Implant is Absorbed by the Body

    A nontoxic, biodegradable orthopedic implant could eliminate the need for a second surgery to remove conventional hardware.

  • Researchers Make Major Breakthrough in Smart Printed Electronics

    A team of scientists has fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2-D nanomaterials for the first time.

  • Walmart to Deploy Energy Storage at California Stores

    The energy storage systems will allow the retailer to reduce costs by reducing each store’s peak electricity demand while providing dispatchable grid support to Southern California Edison.

  • Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute Membership Event

    The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute held its kick-off meeting on April 12th and 13th at the National Robotics Engineering Center in Pittsburgh, PA. The meeting was attended by over 200 people representing many organizations from academia, industry and the public sector.

  • The Automated Freight Train of the Future

    The next-generation transport of cargo by rail will combine a high level of automation, intelligent handling and high speeds.

  • Batteries Tied to Peakers Cut Time to Meet Grid Demand

    SoCalEdison installed lithium-ion batteries to provide instant power while adjacent gas turbines ramp up.

  • Mini Bioreactor System for Research and Process Development

    Eppendorf AG’s DASbox® Mini Bioreactor System is suitable for several applications including process development in microbiology, cultivation of stem cells, clone and cell line screening, and strain characterization.

  • Saudi Arabia Eyes 10% Renewables in Pivot from Fossil Fuel

    The government opened bids for a 300 megawatt solar plant and a separate 400 MW wind farm as the kingdom looks to boost its renewable energy capacity.

  • Watch: We’ll show you Ford’s new hybrid electric police cruiser. Check out this wheelchair powered by compressed air. You may breathe easier with a new air quality sensor from Honeywell.

    Watch: We’ll show you Ford’s new hybrid electric police cruiser. Check out this wheelchair powered by compressed air. You may breathe easier with a new air quality sensor from Honeywell.

  • Mobile Unit Eradicates Chemical Agents

    The unit demonstrated a more than 99.9999 percent destruction of simulated chemical warfare agents and effective scrubbing of acid gases.

  • New Adhesive Sensor Can Save Patients the Discomfort and Pain of Intravenous Drips

    A new adhesive sensor can save patients the discomfort and pain resulting from leaky intravenous drips.

  • 3-D-Printed Model of Stenotic Intracranial Artery Enables Vessel-Wall MRI Standardization

    A collaboration between stroke neurologists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and bioengineers at the University of Massachusetts has led to the creation of a realistic, 3-D-printed phantom of a stenotic intracranial artery that is being used to standardize protocols for high-resolution MRI, also known as vessel-wall MRI, at a network of U.S. and Chinese institutions.

  • Computers Create Recipe for Two New Magnetic Materials

    Material scientists have predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom, using high-throughput computational models.

  • Video: New Coating Could Prevent Pipeline Clogging

    The development from MIT could stop methane clathrate buildup that slows oil and gas flow.

  • The Final Frontier for Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE Winners

    The top two Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE winners, along with post-competition R&D initiatives, have been announced.

  • Spectrometer with Increased Stability and Lower Limits of Detection for Enhanced Fuel Quality Analysis

    Spectro Scientific introduced Version 8 of its SpectrOil® Series analyzers including a new spectrometer for fuel analysis, the SpectrOil® M/F-LD.

  • Mitsui Unit Plans 7.5 MW of Campus PV Solar

    A California college system could save up to $18 million in energy costs over 20 years. More than 11.5 million kWh of annual solar production could offset about 54% of current usage.

  • Excess Photon Energy Captured to Produce Solar Fuels

    The peak external quantum efficiency for hydrogen generation has been pushed to 114 percent with a new photoelectrochemical cell.

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