Embedded viscometers using acoustic-wave-sensing technology give early warnings of oil degradation and contamination in diesel engines that could lead to premature engine failure.
The MCD from maxon motors, a Swiss-based firm with U.S. headquarters in Fall River, Mass. (maxonmotorsusa.com), is a compact positioning drive with a fieldbus connection and a maximum output of 60 W.
Mazda describes the winner of our Best Value award as "a highly styled crossover SUV with the soul of a sports car." Our judges' reaction bears out the claim.
Through legislative and social pressures, public attention is focusing more on the energy used to perform basic domestic functions such as food preparation, cleaning, and climate control. Government-developed energy guidelines now influence consumer preferences.
After three years of work, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University have come up with a concept for a quiet aircraft.
Physical-vapor deposition creates ultrathin, ceramiclike coatings that can significantly improve the performance and durability of precision components.
The factors that give workers the most satisfaction vary between men and women and also between age groups, according to a study by the American Business Collaboration, a consortium of seven corporations.
Transparency and high impact resistance were key factors that led designers at Plano Trio in Brazil to spec Spectar copolyester resin sheets from Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, Tenn., for point-of-purchase displays that showcase Rider shoes.
A team of engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have devised two methods of electrically and physically attaching carbon nanotubes to electrically conductive surfaces of just about any size and shape.
Engineers at Thermo Electron Co., Waltham, Mass. (thermo.com), have built a portable X-ray fluorescence analyzer, the Niton XRF, that can reveal the elemental makeup of an object by analyzing the unique characteristic X-rays it emits after being bombarded with X-rays
HGDS grippers from Festo Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y. (www.festo.com), use a semirotary vane actuator to control a parallel gripper, letting the compact unit grip and turn.
Numerous oil and grease-lubricated bearing designs rely on adequate lubricant film thickness for smooth and trouble-free operation. Engineers must check that films are sufficiently thick so asperities peaks of surface roughness between mating surfaces don't touch.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) designed a carbon nanotube knife that could become a tabletop tool for biologists, letting them slice and dice cells more precisely.
The Kia Optima LX puts out 161 hp, 15% more power than last year's model. That is more than enough "oomph" to easily climb 6% grades without manually shifting the automatic from drive to the lower gears.
Engineers at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif., are finishing flight tests on Spike, a 5.3-lb guided missile that measures 25-in. long and 2.25 in. in diameter.
Hydrogen-powered cars that don’t pollute the environment are a step closer thanks to a new discovery that promises to solve the main problem holding back the technology: The lack of a safe, efficient system for onboard storage.
With more than 5,000 dual-core processors and a staggering 54 teraflops (54 trillion calculations/sec) of computing power, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT3 dubbed Jaguar is helping solve some of science's grand challenges.
Results obtained by Marsis, the pioneering sounding radar onboard the European Space Acency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter, shows scientists that it has an older, rougher face buried beneath its surface.
A dual-stream, single-pass harvester was developed by an associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering and his students at Iowa State University.
Thirty-four undergraduate student teams were selected to fly and conduct experiments aboard NASA's "Weightless Wonder," reduced gravity aircraft, next spring.
More than 1,200 mobile-equipment engineers representing leading OEMs from 60 nations recently convened at the Bosch Rexroth Mobile 2006 conference in Ulm, Germany.
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working with scientists from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna) say they have discovered element 118.
The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) named the winners of its 2006 Clear Choice Awards, the only awards program that recognizes consumer product goods companies that package their products in Glass.
A square centimeter semi-conductor with a 3- m-thick coating of aluminum, gallium, and arsenic (AlGaAs) has become the first standard for the chemical composition of thin-film semiconductor alloys issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The Denali Yukon from GMC is based on the same platform as the Cadillac Escalade and Chevy's Tahoe and Suburban, so the fact that it's big should come as no surprise.