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 Passive Cooling System Achieves -230°C
Engineers Edge - The detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second La ( more...) | | 07/04/2009, 08:45:36
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Helping the Blind See With Three-Dimensional Picture of Sound
Engineers Edge - Video from portable cameras is analysed to calculate the distance of obstacles and predict the movements of people and cars. This information is then transformed and relayed to a blind person as a three-dimensional ‘picture’ of sound.
Th ( more...) | | 07/03/2009, 08:38:49
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Laparoscopic Surgery Performed By Robot
Engineers Edge - Laparoscopic surgery has just been performed for the first time in Malaga in a routine operation using a robotic assistant in the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria. This robot, successfully marketed to many countries, has been d ( more...) | | 07/02/2009, 16:52:15
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Thin Batteries Cost-Effectively Printed
Engineers Edge - For a long time, batteries were bulky and heavy. Now, a new cutting-edge battery is revolutionizing the field. It is thinner than a millimeter, lighter than a gram, and can be produced cost-effectively through a printing process.
In the ( more...) | | 07/02/2009, 07:41:50
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Body Armor Made From Cement Being Developed
Engineers Edge - Engineers at the University of Leeds are working on a new type of body armour made from cement.
The new vests will combine super-strong cement with recycled carbon fiber materials to make a material tough enough to withstand most types o ( more...) | | 07/01/2009, 08:00:26
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Innovative Rat Robot Uses Whiskers
Engineers Edge - A team of scientists have developed an innovative robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers. The SCRATCHbot robot will be demonstrated this week (1 July 2009) at an international workshop looking at how robots ca ( more...) | | 06/30/2009, 15:12:39
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Enhanced Video To Catch Criminals & Terrorists
Engineers Edge - New 'perfection tool' from Tel Aviv University enhances video to catch criminals and terrorists.
It's a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or ca ( more...) | | 06/30/2009, 14:54:21
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Advanced Composite Materials & Renewable Energy
Engineers Edge - Advanced composite materials are playing a vital role in improved design and reduced operating costs for renewable energy technologies. Research presented today [Tuesday 30 June] will highlight how wind, marine and solar power could addres ( more...) | | 06/29/2009, 22:43:22
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Sophisticated Ground Penetrating Radar
Engineers Edge - Criminals of all kinds are digging tunnels along the U.S. border at a fast and furious pace. Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, 60 percent have been found in the last three years. Agents spot a new one every mont ( more...) | | 06/29/2009, 22:23:32
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Renewable Electricity Generation To Power The Future
Engineers Edge - A series of "Renewable Energy Snapshots" published today by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides a timely update on the potential of wind, solar and biomass energy to contribute to the EU's binding target of 20% ( more...) | | 06/29/2009, 09:10:10
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Researchers Introduce First Quantum Computer Chip
Engineers Edge - Researchers have created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.
They also used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully run elementary ( more...) | | 06/29/2009, 08:17:21
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Lead-Free Soldering Research
Engineers Edge - Research carried out by a University of Leicester engineer aims to improve reliability of Lead-Free soldering alloys that are used to make electronic devices.
This attempt to take one more step towards implementing new environmentally-fr ( more...) | | 06/28/2009, 07:55:28
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Explosive Embossing To Imprint On Metal Surfaces
Engineers Edge - The holographic structure on the frisbee glistens colorfully. It is unique to this batch and makes the product forgery-proof. Explosives are used to emboss the original pattern into the injection moulding tool. This method can be used to g ( more...) | | 06/25/2009, 18:14:01
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Technique Indicates When HVAC System Is Low On Refrigerant
Engineers Edge - Purdue University engineers have developed a technique that saves energy and servicing costs by indicating when air conditioners are low on refrigerant, preventing the units from working overtime.
The new "virtual refrigerant charge sens ( more...) | | 06/23/2009, 20:27:11
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Research Advances Towards Biological Fuel Cells
Engineers Edge - University of Georgia researchers have developed a successful way to grow molecular wire brushes that conduct electrical charges, a first step in developing biological fuel cells that could power pacemakers, cochlear implants and prostheti ( more...) | | 06/21/2009, 09:22:45
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Autonomous Robot Performing Surgery?
Engineers Edge - The day may be getting a little closer when robots will perform surgery on patients in dangerous situations or in remote locations, such as on the battlefield or in space, with minimal human guidance.
Engineers at Duke University believe ( more...) | | 06/18/2009, 17:23:25
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Innovation Creates Ultra-High Frequency Sound Waves
Engineers Edge - It was an idea born out of curiosity in the physics lab, but now a new type of ‘laser’ for generating ultra-high frequency sound waves instead of light has taken a major step towards becoming a unique and highly useful 21st century technol ( more...) | | 06/17/2009, 17:54:27
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Applied Magnetic Field Changes Fabricated Materials Color
Engineers Edge - A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change orientation. ( more...) | | 06/17/2009, 09:03:25
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Process Creates Metal Alloy with Zero Thermal Expansion
Engineers Edge - By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does not expand when heate ( more...) | | 06/15/2009, 22:52:06
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Electronics That Stretch Into Custom Shapes
Engineer Edge - A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT.
Stretchable electronics, which would enable electro ( more...) | | 06/15/2009, 18:00:46
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Flexible Solar Panels Power Lights
Engineers Edge - There won’t be anymore waiting in the dark at this campus bus shelter. New flexible solar cell technology developed by a group of engineering researchers at McMaster University has been installed to power lighting for night-time transit u ( more...) | | 06/12/2009, 19:19:46
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Electronic Glue Could Mean Less Expensive Semiconductors
Engineers Edge - Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells and thermoelectric devices tha ( more...) | | 06/11/2009, 15:37:30
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Tunable Transistors and LEDs With Graphene
Engineers Edge - Today's transistors and light emitting diodes (LED) are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical properties.
Now, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that a form ( more...) | | 06/11/2009, 08:52:44
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Accelerometers Convert Cell Phone Movements Into Pictures
Engineers Edge - Student Device Turns Phone Gestures Into Email
It’s a familiar scene in airports and train stations. Hands full with luggage, briefcase, laptop or coat and there’s something you need to remember, like the level and row numbers where you ( more...) | | 06/10/2009, 09:39:42
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Identifying Concealed Weapons on the Human Body Technology
Engineers Edge - Electrical engineers from UC San Diego have created high-performance W-Band silicon-germanium (SiGe) radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for passive millimeter-wave imaging. This advance could lead to significantly less expensive i ( more...) | | 06/09/2009, 11:57:08
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New Protocol For "Search for Life" Space Missions
Engineers Edge - Scientists have developed a new cleaning protocol for space hardware, such as the scoops of Mars rovers, which could be used on future "Search for Life" missions on other planets.
The new protocol was developed as part of a project to in ( more...) | | 06/08/2009, 08:51:08
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Ultra-High Density Memory Chip That Lasts!
Engineers Edge - Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique ultra-high density memory storage medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years.
When it comes to data storage, density and durability have always moved in opposite directions - t ( more...) | | 06/07/2009, 21:24:29
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Flexible Memristor Developed by NIST
Engineers Edge - Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As reported in the July 2009 issue of IEEE Electron Device Letters,* the eng ( more...) | | 06/03/2009, 20:41:31
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Metal That Pumps Liquid Uphill
Engineers Edge - In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester have created a simple slab of metal that lifts li ( more...) | | 06/02/2009, 14:03:05
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Key to Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles is a High-pressure Compound?
Engineers Edge - A hydrogen-rich compound discovered by Stanford researchers is packed with promise of helping overcome one of the biggest hurdles to using hydrogen for fuel--namely, how do you stuff enough hydrogen into a volume that is small enough to be ( more...) | | 06/01/2009, 22:32:33
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Super-Efficient Regular Light Bulbs Made
Engineers Edge - Laser Process Doubles Brightness for the Same Amount of Energy
An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers at the University of Rochester. The process could make a light as ( more...) | | 05/31/2009, 20:40:49
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Lightweight Electric Motor to Power New Car Model
Engineers Edge - A lightweight electric motor designed by Oxford University engineers is to power a new four-seat coupé, with track tests scheduled for the end of 2009.
Dr Malcolm McCulloch of the Electrical Power Group at Oxford's Department of Engineeri ( more...) | | 05/31/2009, 20:17:37
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Alternative to Chrome - New Alloys for the Finishing Touch
Engineers Edge - Ever since the 1940s, chrome has been used to add a protective coating and shiny luster to a wide range of metal products, from bathroom fixtures to car bumpers.
Chrome adds beauty and durability, but those features come at a heavy cost. ( more...) | | 05/24/2009, 10:12:27
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Faster, Smaller and More Versatile Computer Chips From Graphene
Engineers Edge - Scientists and engineers from Stanford, the University of Florida and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are the first to create one of two basic types of semiconductors using an exotic, new, one-atom-thick material called graphene. Th ( more...) | | 05/12/2009, 22:33:22
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Smart Instrumentation, Sensors, and Software Improve Wind Power
Engineers Edge - Researchers at Purdue University and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method that uses sensors and computational software to constantly monitor forces exerted on wind turbine blades. This method can be used to adjust the angle ( more...) | | 05/11/2009, 10:41:56
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Innovative and Simple Solar Oven Wins Contest
Engineers Edge - Jon Bohmer worked with his two little girls on a project that hopefully would provide practical and inexpensive heat energy. What he did accomplished is a $5 solar-powered oven.
The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one ( more...) | | 04/09/2009, 20:11:33
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Measuring Cropland CO2 Emissions
Engineers Edge - For the first time, farmers have data that tracks at the county level on-site and off-site energy use and carbon dioxide emissions associated with growing crops in the United States.
This information is vital for examining changes in crop ( more...) | | 02/09/2009, 17:12:08
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New Light-weight Titanium-Glass Alloys
Engineers Edge – Engineers and material scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed structural material made from titanium based metallic-glass composites. These materials are low cost and lighter than the similar alloys ( more...) | | 12/29/2008, 16:31:10
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London Millennium Bridge 'Wobble' Explained
London Millennium Bridge 'wobble' Explained
Engineers Edge - On its opening day, the London Millennium Bridge experienced unexpected swaying and rocking due to the large number of pedestrians crossing it. A new study finally explains the Millennium Bridg ( more...) | | 12/21/2008, 16:22:57
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Groundbreaking Energy Efficiency Housing Project
Engineers Edge - Three houses under construction in East Tennessee carry the story of “The Three Little Pigs” to an entirely new level and will become a model for the nation when it comes to determining energy efficiency.
While the first house isn’t made ( more...) | | 11/21/2008, 12:44:05
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Hydrogen Powered Car Developed and Unveiled
Engineers Edge - Everybody has been affected by the price of gasoline and diesel. Consumers and engineers are searching for economical solutions and alternatives that are less expensive and environmentally friendly. A team of scientists and engineers at th ( more...) | | 09/22/2008, 20:36:35
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NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology
Engineers Edge - NASA astronauts will need power sources when they return to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. NASA engineers are exploring the possibility of nuclear fission to provide the necessary power and taking initial steps toward a non-nuclea ( more...) | | 09/17/2008, 20:48:22
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