Prieto Battery and Intel have announced a business collaboration to accelerate the introduction of Prieto’s 3D solid-state battery cell into the marketplace. Prieto, a spinoff company out of Colorado State University, has agreed to complete a series ...
PredPol maps this red box onto areas where heightened crime is predicted to occur. Also.. it's their logo. (via Predpol) With budget cuts and shortages of officers, police departments are feeling the pressure to become smarter about preventing c...
BodyCap, a French start-up company that specializes in miniaturized wireless monitoring devices today announced it has tested its e-Celsius Performance connected pill for temperature monitoring on ten FC Nantes soccer platers during two French League...
Schematic of electrode process design: (a) Components mixing under ultrasonic irradiation, (b) an optical image of the as-fabricated electrode made of SiNP, SG and PAN, (c) the electrode after SHT, (d) Schematic of the atomic scale structure of the e...
Future commercial hypersonic flight will require an orbiter stage which, after main engine cut-off, will enter a high-speed gliding flight phase and will be capable of attaining altitudes of 80 km and Mach numbers beyond Mach 20. This vehicle w...
Artist's impression of "Blue Wolf" The range of underwater vehicles is limited by the amount of energy available for propulsion and the power required for a given underwater speed. Underwater propulsive power varies roughly with the cube of spee...
By announcing its HY4 four-seater aircraft, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is taking a big step towards making zero-emission commercial flying a reality. Powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell batte...
Powered by the Tobii EyeChip, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed specifically for eye tracking, the new Tobii IS4 eye tracking module provides OEMs and integrators with a lightweight platform featuring near-infrared sensors, ...
In creating a laser weapon for military use the biggest challenges for researchers are: 1) creating a laser that can reach high enough power to partially destroy or disable a target; 2) tracking numerous target objects simultaneously and 3) pro...
Raytheon has successfully fired its new Excalibur N5 projectile during a recent live guided flight test at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. It was fired from a 5-inch naval gun during testing (shown, top photo). Excalibur N5 (bottom photo) is a 5-inc...
Silicon transistors have been made smaller year after year, but they are approaching a point of physical limitation. Continuing to shrink the size of the transistor – including the channels and contacts – without compromising performance has become a...
Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are believed to be formed by seasonal flow of water. The streaks are roughly the length of a football field. Photo courtesy of: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.Scientists rep...
If you wait around long enough sometimes reality gets closer to science fiction. In the 1982 film “Firefox” Clint Eastwood plays an American pilot assigned to steal a highly advanced Soviet fighter aircraft which, among other things, uses a hel...
C-130 Hercules carrying a tactical laser When three top Air Force officers speaking separately at the same conference all say they expect the service to demonstrate airborne laser weapons by the end of this decade it wouldn’t be wise to bet against ...
The low cost of digital imaging devices has allowed them to become popular consumer products. This low cost is made possible by leveraging a mature processing infrastructure and the ability to fabricate complete focal plane arrays (FPAs) at the...
Combining data obtained from two powerful instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) determined why the crater shown above is terraced — not bow...
The Bloodhound SSC land speed record racing car will make its world debut at East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, London on Thursday, 24 September before going on public display on Friday and Saturday the 25th and 26th of September from 9am to 5pm.Bloodh...
Photo source: Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), Shanghai China China has been dominating global economic news for the past couple of weeks as its slowing economy caused jittery investors to sell stocks, resulting in major l...
Highly sophisticated electronics like infrared instruments and other sensors need to be cooled to precisely detect what they're designed to capture, even to temperatures as low as -320 F (-195 C). The High Power Microcryocooler introduced t...
The Martian is an upcoming science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Andy Weir. The premise is that during a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm...
The science of tracking and predicting the path of Hurricanes has improved in accuracy over the years but there has been little improvement in the accuracy of determining how intense the storms are going to be. Now, ten years after Hurricane Katrina ...
While examining the fluid dynamics behind whisky “mellowing” would appear to be the perfect dissertation topic for a high-living doctoral student, Japanese distillery Suntory is serious about studying the impact of microgravity on its signature produ...
Travelling wave tubes (TWT) amplify signals by exchanging kinetic energy in the electron beam (shown as a blue line) with electromagnetic energy in the signal. This figure represents a cutaway view of a TWT with all of the critical components: electr...
Artist's impression of new racing wheelchair Following up on its success at the Sochi Winter Olympics--the U.S. two-man bobsled team took home a bronze medal in a bobsled designed by BMW North America --BMW has announced plans to develop a ...
It’s a big week for interesting U.S. Patent announcements. On Monday I reported on Thoth Technology receiving a patent for an inflatable “space elevator”, a giant structure rising from the ground and enabling payloads to be placed into orbit without ...
