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Years of innovation provided in high-speed rail bearings
An unwavering goal to maximise safety in high-speed rail travel has led NSK to provide more than half of century of innovations that date back to the very first generation of Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan.Indeed, advanced development programmes have continued apace to the present day. This is because the latest-generation trains are getting even faster, which places yet higher demands on bearing technologies.
Study shows how the brain reacts to difficult moral issues
The family relationship between film characters clearly affects the reactions in the viewers' brain. The study has also detected a significant conflict between the reactions of the brain and the person's own account.Are we more prone to help the person that resembles us the most?
Gas sensors offer stability for environmental monitoring
Multi-pixel Sensirion Gas Platform (SGP) devices are in stock at Mouser Electronics. Among the only long-term stable siloxane-resistant MEMS gas sensors in the market today, the SGP devices are ideal for integration into mobile devices for reporting indoor air quality, measuring breath alcohol concentration, or recognising smells.
Magnetic particles enable alternative form of data storage
Research has shown that an exotic kind of magnetic behaviour discovered just a few years ago holds great promise as a way of storing data — one that could overcome fundamental limits that might otherwise be signalling the end of “Moore’s Law,” which describes the ongoing improvements in computation and data storage over recent decades.
Robot wears different outfits for different tasks
From butterflies that sprout wings to hermit crabs that switch their shells, many animals must adapt their exterior features in order to survive. While humans don’t undergo that kind of metamorphosis, we often try to create functional objects that are similarly adaptive — including our robots.Despite what you might have seen in “Transformers” movies, though, today’s robots are still pretty inflexible.
Retractable pitch a key feature of Tottenham’s new stadium
When Tottenham Hotspur move into their new stadium next year, they will be the owners of what is believed to be the world’s first dividing retractable pitch.Due to the company’s experience, Sheffield engineering company SCX has been selected as the retractable pitch supplier.
Are drones just a catastrophe waiting to happen?
Provider of drone detection and mitigation products, DroneShield has noted a New York Post report on a collision between a US Army Black Hawk helicopter and a rogue drone over Staten Island in New York. The Army helicopter is understood to have conducted an emergency landing following the collision, and the authorities are investigating the incident.
When solar-powered drones meet Arctic glaciers
What better place than the Arctic for testing the new generation of solar-powered aircraft? The Autonomous Systems Laboratory ASL has developed a pioneering solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), AtlantikSolar, capable of flying for multiple days. Glaciologists from ETHZurich – who use UAVs to monitor glaciers in Greenland – need further endurance to deal with the immensity of the glacial landscape.
Powerful X-rays enable navigational view of the brain
If brain imaging could be compared to Google Earth, neuroscientists would already have a pretty good 'satellite view' of the brain, and a great 'street view' of neuron details. But navigating how the brain computes is arguably where the action is, and neuroscience's 'navigational map view' has been a bit meager.Now, a research team led by Eva Dyer, a computational neuroscientist and electrical engineer, has imaged brains at that map-like or "meso...
Smartphone mini LEDs provides illumination for the perfect selfie
Osram Opto Semiconductors is expanding its existing portfolio for flash applications with a product featuring a specially developed Chip Sized Package (CSP). With Ceramos C, Osram is following the trend for miniaturisation as the new LED is the smallest yet in its product family. It is suitable for flash applications on smartphones, producing illumination for every snapshot.