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Jumping Droplets Whisk Away Hotspots in Electronics
Engineers have developed a technology to cool hotspots in high-performance electronics using the same physical phenomenon that cleans the wings of cicadas.
Boeing Launches Venture Capital Unit
The business unit will focus on accelerating potentially transformative aerospace technologies, manufacturing innovations, and emerging business models.
PG&E Completes EPIC Projects
The projects were designed to evaluate and validate technologies to help PG&E meet objectives such as enabling continued growth of distributed energy resources and modernizing the grid.
Seaweed: From Superfood to Superconductor
Seaweed, the edible algae with a long history in some Asian cuisines, and which has also become part of the Western foodie culture, could turn out to be an essential ingredient in another trend: the development of more sustainable ways to power our devices.
New Research Could Help Speed Up the 3-D Printing Process
A team of researchers from Binghamton University and MIT have identified some bottlenecks in 3-D printers that, if improved, could speed up the entire process.
LED-Based Device Predicts Radiation Skin Damage
An imaging device might gauge the severity and type of skin damage caused by radiation therapy administered to breast cancer patients.
Materials May Lead to Self-healing Smartphones
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, report that they have developed a self-healing polymeric material with an eye toward electronics and soft robotics that can repair themselves.
Public Access to NASA Software Products
NASA’s 2017-2018 software catalog offers an extensive portfolio of complimentary products for diverse technical applications.
Video: Why is Graphene so Important to Engineering Research?
Why is the 2-D atomic-scale hexagonal lattice known as graphene, first isolated in 2004 by two researchers at University of Manchester, UK, widely considered the next disruptive technology?
Ford Plans Connected Vehicle R&D Center
The center will focus on R&D across infotainment, in-vehicle modems, gateway modules, driver-assist features, and autonomous vehicles.
Floating Sensor Fingerprints Spilled Oil
A low-cost, floating fluorometer incorporating an array of four photodiode detectors detects and distinguishes among different types of crude and refined oil.
Stretching the Boundaries of Neural Implants
Implantable fibers have been an enormous boon to brain research, allowing scientists to stimulate specific targets in the brain and monitor electrical responses. But similar studies in the nerves of the spinal cord, which might ultimately lead to treatments to alleviate spinal cord injuries, have been more difficult to carry out. That's because the spine flexes and stretches as the body moves, and the relatively stiff, brittle fibers used today could damage the delicate spinal cord tissue.
Video: Robots have an impact on jobs and pay. GE deploys advanced analytics to cut drilling rig costs. An ATV goes the distance with a practical fuel cell.
Video: Robots have an impact on jobs and pay. GE is deploying advanced analytics on drilling rigs to cut costs. An ATV goes the distance with a practical fuel cell.
Deep UV Light from LEDs
LED technology offers an efficient, environmentally friendly alternative to mercury-based lamps widely used to emit deep UV light for food and water disinfection and other industrial applications.
WAMI Sensor Takes First Flight
A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system has been carried in the internal payload bay of a small unmanned aircraft system for the first time.
Autonomous Crack Detection in Nuclear Power Plants
An advanced algorithm and a powerful machine learning technique to detect cracks based on the changing texture surrounding cracks on steel surfaces.
Device Predicts Hemorrhagic Shock
New monitoring technology can be used in battlefield and hospital settings to detect when a patient is going into hemorrhagic shock.
PolyU Develops Accurate Contactless 3-D Fingerprint Identification System
The minutiae features from the fingerprint ridges — such as ridge ending and bifurcation — are universally considered to be the most reliable of fingerprint details, ensuring that each fingerprint is unique.
New Ultrafast Flexible and Transparent Memory Devices Could Herald a New Era of Electronics
A new technique to produce the quickest, smallest, highest-capacity memories for flexible and transparent applications could pave the way for a future golden age of electronics.
Model Solution Establishes New Technique for Molding Flexible PCBs
A wearable device developer benefitted from new production tools and an innovative method to hold flexible PCBs in place while molding around them.