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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.
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.