Women In Engineering: Ellen Wright This profile series features members from around the world at all stages in their careers. Here we speak with Ellen Wright, senior staff consultant at Engineering Systems Inc., Kansas City. What does your typical workday look like? No two days are the same! I get to wear many hats […]
Paper battery as powerful as an AA and activated by water
Video description In this video, check out Robert Murray-Smith explaining and recreating the water-activated disposable paper battery technology just published in Nature.
Protective coating material self-heals in 30 minutes when exposed to sunlight
Video description Researchers have developed a transparent protective coating material that can self-heal in 30 minutes when exposed to sunlight.
First atomic view of a quantum electronic device in operation
For the first time, a team of scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and Hewlett Packard Labs have used ultrafast electron diffraction, an ultrafast camera to observe for the first time the atomic and electronic movements as miniature vanadium dioxide-based switches operated.
North Star Imaging opens x-ray inspection services lab in Orlando
North Star Imaging, Rogers, Minn., is now providing industrial 2D and 3D computed tomography inspection at its newly opened Inspection Services Laboratory in Orlando, Fla.