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Mill Software Package Aims at Flexibility and Speed
To streamline and simplify workflow the software supports region chaining preview, which allows users to see their machining, air, and containment regions.
Cooling Water Corrosion and Its Control:Part 1
Cooling water corrosion issues are an ongoing challenge for facilities engineers. The cooling water environment can radically influence selection and performance of materials chosen for heat exchanger tubes and other equipment.
Smart Appliances Deployed in Smart City Project
The appliances will use NarrowBand IOT, an Internet-of-Things communication technology. The smart power control is implemented through embedded connectivity of the devices and uses REstore's cloud analytics.
Simulated Mars Trip Under Way on Hawaiian Volcano
During their eight-month stay, six participants will eat freeze-dried foods, have limited personal space and experience a 20-minute lag in communications with the outside world.
Clean Water and Hydrogen from Wastewater
Researchers used a non-conductive polymer with a thin layer of platinum, allowing the coated fiber to act as a catalyst for the hydrogen-evolution reaction.
Even Hydrogen Storage is Bigger in Texas
An underground cavern holds enough hydrogen to back up a large-scale steam methane reformer unit for 30 days.
Advanced Drilling Tech Withstands Geothermal Heat
An advanced directional drilling system is designed for application in extreme temperatures (300 C or 572 F) and pressures at depth in crystalline rock formations.
Fiber Optics Offer Gas Pipeline Protection
The monitoring system quickly detects when abnormal stress, movement, or temperature conditions occur.
Corn-Based Ethanol vs Gasoline
Due to technology advances, the GHG profile of corn-based ethanol in the U.S. is expected to be almost 50% lower than gasoline by 2022.
TUNA to Improve U.S. Military Communications
Temporary underwater fiber-optics communications networks will ensure connectivity when tactical networks are unavailable.
Augmented Reality Streamlines Spine Surgery
A3D augmented-reality view of the patient’s external and internal anatomy improves procedure planning, surgical tool navigation, and implant accuracy.
Model Advances AI to Human Levels of Understanding
The problems that are hard for people are also hard for the model, providing additional evidence that its operation is capturing some important properties of human cognition.
Faster Recharging Batteries Possible After New Insight
Faster recharging lithium batteries could be developed after scientists figured out why adding charged metal atoms to tunnel structures within batteries improves their performance.
Your Heartbeat as Your Password
Researchers encrypted patient data using a person's unique electrocardiograph as the key to lock and unlock the files.
Antimicrobial Could Fight Hospital Infections
A novel light-activated antimicrobial could aid in the fight against hospital-acquired infections.
Old Technology Yields Advanced Functional Material
Researchers have woven a material that mimics periosteum, a tissue that envelops most bones in the human body, paving the way for designing smart materials based on the tissue’s composition.
Chemical Engineers Take Step Toward Bio-diesel
A genetically modified yeast developed at MIT could lead to one of the first bio-based diesel fuels.
Calibration Process May Improve CNC Accuracy
An improved calibration process for machining and milling tools may help reduce flaws in the large parts manufactured for the aircraft and heavy equipment industries.
Smart Damper Boring Bar for Lathe Ops
New damping mechanism suppresses vibration in lathe operations.
Soy Filter Captures Toxic Chemicals Others Can’t
An inexpensive, all-natural soy-based filter captures toxic air pollutants other filters miss.