HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Eliminating Losses Caused by Lightning
It is both unwise and expensive to underestimate lightning. A single bolt of lightning can pack up to 100 million volts of electricity, which is why lightning protection systems (LPSs) are so important in reducing or eliminating loss caused by lightning in the United States.
Safer Nuclear Fuel Fabricated by Westinghouse
An accident-tolerant fuel solution is intended to offer design-basis-altering safety and greater uranium efficiency.
SPEC Pak® Connector Series
Anderson Power Products® (APP), a leader in high power interconnect solutions, introduces its SPEC Pak (Sealed Power For Environmental Connections) connector series, designed for use wherever a rugged or waterproof high power, signal and ground interconnect solution is required.
New Printed Sensors Monitor Tire Wear and Tear
If adopted, the sensor would increase safety, reduce fuel consumption and improve the performance of vehicles.
MultiMark the Smart All-In-One Marking Solution
MultiMark is a marker system which perfectly meets modern requirements in conjunction with tailored software and particularly efficient printer technology.
Organs-On-Chips Go Electric
Organs-on-chips is a new tool that allows researchers to study human organs and tissues in a new and groundbreaking way, but it can take weeks to grow human cells. A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering set out to fix this problem.
1500V Solar System Modules
An increase in the DC voltage in your solar applications of up to 1500VDC enables a significant reduction in system costs as well as the optimization of annual energy production.
Urine Disinfection in a Microbial Fuel Cell Cascade System
Microbial fuel cell cascade technology previously developed at University of the West of England has been demonstrated to clean organic waste, including urine.
China Launches World's Largest Floating Solar Farm
Attempting to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, China has launched the world’s largest floating solar farm.
VIDEO: Furniture System Moves with the Push of a Button
MIT Media Lab has developed a new furniture system named Ori which transforms your apartment in seconds.
Scientists Propose New Method to Keep New Power Grid Components Safe
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, concerned that the software underlying the safe operation of an upgraded grid isn’t keeping up with the technological advances in the physical components of those grids, are proposing a method to correct lagging software in large-scale distribution systems.
Finnish Facility Produces Fuels from Carbon Dioxide
The Soletair demo plant is designed to use carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals.
How the Solar Spectrum Can Satisfy a “Full Earth”
Simultaneously use of different parts of sunlight’s spectrum to produce crops, generate electricity, and purify water on the same piece of land could provide resources in a “full-earth” scenario.
Rusty Steel Mesh Reclaimed as Battery Electrodes
Coin cells made with these new electrodes demonstrate excellent capacity, discharge voltages, and cycle stability.
Thermal Imaging Camera For Your Smart Phone
CompactPRO is an advanced thermal imaging camera designed to plug into your smartphone. Use with your iPhone or Android phone to get high resolution thermal images.
VIDEO: Transformative Food Could Reshape the Way Food is Transported
MIT’s Media Lab and Tangable Media Group have teamed up to revolutionize food printing called the transformative appetite. Using food printing technology, pasta is printed in a 2-D shape that is flat until it is put into boiling water.
Processes Enabling Nanomanufacturing
The processes that nanomanufacturing engineers use to fabricate nanomaterials, nanoelectronic devices and other nanotechnology products depend on their nanotechnology approach and the specific nanotechnology product being manufactured. Two major approaches to nanomanufacturing are top down and bottom up. Nanofabrication processes enable the bottom-up approach. Nanoimprinting and self-assembly processes are newer nanofabrication processes under development. Powder and particle fabrication methods enable the top-down approach.
Detecting Hazardous Radioactive Substances from Even Greater Distances
A new method for detecting hazardous radioactive substances from remote distances has been developed by Professor Eunmi Choi and a team of UNIST researchers.
A New Way to Harness Wind Power Every Day
Scientists from the University of Rhode Island, Florida Atlantic University, USA and Wuhan University China have discovered a new way to collect and use wind power, even if there isn’t any wind.
Insight: a Climatic Case for Nuclear Power
How can we adopt a systemic approach and make sure nuclear energy and other promising zero-carbon power technologies fit together effectively?