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Boeing Space Taxi to Feature Hundreds of 3D-Printed Parts
The composite parts will help Boeing lower costs and save weight on each seven-seat capsule when compared with traditional metal and plastic manufacturing.
Airless Tires for Golf Carts
The X Tweel Turf is a single unit designed to replace the tire, wheel, and valve assembly. It performs like a conventional pneumatic tire.
Your Next Set of Tires Could Come from Trees
Technology from the University of Minnesota offers a new chemical process to make isoprene, which is the key molecule in car tires.
Renewables Are Cost-Competitive with Fossil Sources, Report Says
Renewable power generation technologies are now cost competitive with fossil fuels and innovation is gathering pace across the sector, finds a new report by Lloyd’s Register.
Growth Seen for Composites Used for Wind Turbines
Demand for fiber-reinforced plastic composites in the manufacture of wind turbine components is forecast to expand 5.9% per year through 2020 to 152 million pounds.
Sandia Engineers Tackle Solar PV Panel Corrosion
Sandia researchers team up to increase the longevity of photovoltaic arrays.
Imitating Nature to Produce Ammonia
University of Utah chemists are on the path to develop a low-energy method to produce ammonia.
Strategy Speeds Up Nuclear Decommissioning
Use of a friction-stir welded metal matrix basket for used nuclear fuel storage can shorten the required cooling period from about seven years to two-and-a-half years.
Solar-Powered Eye (and Ear) Exams
A low-cost, solar-powered ophthalmoscope was developed at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, to help health workers in low-income countries detect signs of blindness.
Step Forward for Practical Terahertz Technology?
Wearable terahertz emitters? NUS engineers announce they’re almost here.
Chip May Extend Sensors' Battery Life
The result is smaller batteries, or a battery life that may be extended in some cases by years.
Safer Brain Surgery with Smart Needle
A brain biopsy needle houses a miniature fiber-optic camera, allowing surgeons to avoid at-risk vessels during instrument insertion and prevent potentially fatal bleeds.
Tree Species Recognition by Modeling and Measurement
Researchers from Tampere University of Technology and the Natural Resources Institute Finland developed a method to extract individual trees from forest plot level point cloud data.
U.S. Navy Fishes for Synthetic Slime
The defense mechanism used by Pacific hagfish, also known as slime eels, has been replicated by U.S. Navy researchers for use by military personnel.
High-Pressure Natural Gas Fueled Turbine-Generator
The focus of the research is an expansion turbine that triggers a significant pressure drop at a low volume flow of natural gas with electrical power of 1 kW.
Cheap Chips May Expand Access to Medical Diagnostics
An inkjet-printed lab-on-a-chip that costs about a penny to produce could revolutionize diagnostic services around the world.
Polymer Enhances Metal-Air Battery Catalyst Performance
The catalytic performance of a perovskite oxide-polypyrrole complex was deemed comparable to that of pricier platinum.
Sharp Eyes $7bn Plant Investment
Sharp will take the lead in the joint construction of a liquid crystal display panel plant in the U.S.
Hydrogen Test Project Set for Steelmaker
The plant will be built and operated on the premises of voestalpine in Linz. The hydrogen generated there will be fed directly into the internal gas network, allowing the testing of the use of hydrogen in various process stages of steel production.
HERO Program Expands to Florida Efficiency Market
Products installed using HERO financing must carry a high government efficiency rating, such as those in the ENERGY STAR program.