Search results for "matter"
Electric wire-rope hoist gives production up-time a lift
Providing a boost to operations at an injection-moulding shop in the UK is the Eurobloc VM3 Essential electric wire-rope hoist and crane kit from Verlinde.Offering 10 tonne capacity and 9m height of lift, the hoist is helping Cannock-headquartered Goodfish to lift mould tools into the company´s various injection moulding machines with an efficiency that serves to maximise production uptime.
CCTV drones - coming to a neighbourhood near you
Drones have been the future technology to watch for the past few years, and according to CCTV.co.uk it looks like we’re still not done thinking about their potential.
Terahertz laser could be used for chemical detection
For more than 20 years, Qing Hu, a distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and his group have been working on sources of terahertzradiation that can be etched onto microchips. In the latest issue ofNature Photonics, members of Hu’s group and colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Toronto describe a novel design that boosts the power output of chip-mounted terahertzlasers by 80...
Happy 20th birthday u-blox!
Cast your minds back to 1997, what were you doing? Daniel Ammann, Jean‑Pierre Wyss and Andreas Thiel were inventing the world’s smallest GPS module as part of their post‑graduate research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).The idea was a simple as it was ingenious and, within a matter of months, they teamed up with their professor and a well‑wishing mentor and investor to found u‑blox.
Plug-in tech upgrade brings peace of mind to motorists
A survey of motorists conducted by Smartdriverclub, the connected car service, has found that 1 in 4 has made the decision to delay buying their next car to help them manage their motoring costs. Other cost cutting measures include shopping around for motor insurance (63%), being more conscious of fuel use (48%) and even downsizing (16%).
Making changes to increase wiring safety
Paul Collins, Technical and Training Manager, Hager, has highlighted three key safety driven changes that could emerge as the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations Standard BS 7671 review progresses through the public consultation phase.
Smart hydrogels could contribute to biomedical applications
A research team led by Prof SUN Fei, Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has created a new protein-based stimuli-responsive smart hydrogel that could open doors for future material biology and biomedical applications.Hydrogels, also known as soft matter in the medical world, are leading materials for biomedical applications such as drug delivery and stem cell ...
Magnetic fields in distant galaxy are piece of cosmic puzzle
Astronomers have measured magnetic fields in a galaxy 4.6 billion light-years away — a big clue to understanding how magnetic fields formed and evolved over cosmic time.In an article published in Nature Astronomy, a collaboration led by Sui Ann Mao, the Minerva Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and a former postdoctoral Jansky Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, reports the discovery of l...
Noninvasive technique for probing cells could reveal disease
MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical properties simply by observation. The researchers use standard confocal microscopy tozero in on the constant, jiggling motions of a cell’s particles — telltale movements that can be used to decipher a cell’s stiffness. Unlike optical tweezers, the team’s technique is noninvasive, running little risk of altering or damaging a cell while probing its content...
Self-assembly process made possible with X-ray synchrotron
Some of the world’s tiniest crystals are known as “artificial atoms” because they can organise themselves into structures that look like molecules, including “superlattices” that are potential building blocks for novel materials.Now scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first observation of these nanocrystals rapidly forming superla...