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Soy Filter Captures Toxic Chemicals Others Can’t
An inexpensive, all-natural soy-based filter captures toxic air pollutants other filters miss.
Recyclable Display Screens Built from Proteins
A display technology based on luminescent proteins may enable cost-effective, environmentally friendly manufacture of displays for computers, TVs, and mobile devices.
HVDC Line Set for Upgrade by ABB
ABB will modernize the Sylmar HVDC Converter Station at the southern end of the Pacific DC Intertie power transmission line.
Rockwell Automation Releases New Pharma Serialization Software
Serialization of pharmaceuticals and medical devices may be easier and more complete with Rockwell Automation’s product.
Energy Savings Goes to School
A New Hampshire school district becomes an energy-savings model.
Replacing Cement with Geopolymers May Cut Emissions
Substituting geopolymers for cement could lead to reductions in atmospheric carbon dioxide. These materials also may be more resistant than cement to high temperatures and chemicals.
Hair Is Strong, but Why?
A team of university researchers found that hair behaves differently depending on how fast or slow it is stretched.
Superalloy for High-Temperature Turbines
The advance could speed the development of turbine engines of all sorts, including those used for transportation and power generation.
Gas Detection Camera for Potentially Explosive Atmospheres
Workers can use the FLIR GFx320 to assess potential risks from afar instead of scanning for fugitive and non-fugitive gas emissions from outside hazardous areas.
Mars Rover Prototype Delivered for Tests
The robotic rover will be used as part of the second phase of ExoMars to follow up studies exploring the possibility of life on Mars.
Water Affordability in the U.S.
Analysis underscores a possible affordability crisis in which an estimated 11.9% of U.S. households (13.8 million households) could find current water prices unaffordable.
Emissions from Heavy Duty Natural Gas-Fueled Vehicles
Methane emissions from heavy-duty natural gas-fueled and associated fueling stations were characterized.
NASA Finds a Greener Way to Clean Pipes and Tubing
A volatile organic compound-free system for cleaning tubing and piping substitutes deionized water for more costly isopropyl alcohol.
Expanding Low Cost, Low Head Hydropower
Low impact turbines generate power using a cascade of smaller dams with low head drops as opposed to one large dam.
Algorithm That Plots Fuel Savings for PHEVs
Connected vehicle technology and evolutionary algorithms combine to make plug-in hybrid vehicles more efficient.
The Emergence of Facial Recognition Technology
To combat the bias and accuracy issues inherent in the face recognition technology, researchers, algorithm developers, and even law-enforcement agencies are taking a multipronged approach that emphasizes training and testing.
Conductive Concrete: A Key Element in any Lightning Protection Solution
The concept of low resistance path to earth is fundamental to electrical theory and practice. When designing and installing electrical systems, proper grounding is a necessity.
Electrical Submersible Pump Passes Live Well Test
The installation of ESP, deployable through 3/5-in tubing, took place in a well in California well, and included full wellhead termination and pump operation.
Pump Delivers Drug Doses Over Time
The pump works by releasing a drug into a patient’s body over time, overcoming the problems that some patients have complying with a schedule of injections.
Wave Pool Technology Set for Debut
The new technology can deliver waves of up to 6.9 feet that cross the pool for 18 seconds.