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The 1,000th ship-to-shore crane with safe energy chain system
igus has announced it has fitted its 1,000th ship-to-shore (STS) crane with an energy chain system. For these long travels, rolling energy chains (rol e-chains) are used to maximise service life, while minimising drive power. They can also be combined with the new isense modules to measure the movement and wear of the energy chain system – this enables the replacement date for components to be predicted during ongoing operation and fail-saf...
Energy chain applications wanted for the vector awards
igus has announced a call for entries for the vector award 2018. Now in its sixth year, the biennial event recognises the innovative use of energy chain systems in numerous applications, from handling energy and data safely on the arm of an industrial robot to an outdoor camera system that films high-speed track events without interruption and vibration.
Turning energy-storing fats into energy-burning fats
It combines a new way to deliver drugs, via a micro-needle patch, with drugs that are known to turn energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat. This approach developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) reduced weight gain in mice on a high fat diet and their fat mass by more than 30% over four weeks.
Cooling glove helps athletes and patients
A cooling device that has been improving strength and endurance in mostly male athletes for 15 years is finding new uses in helping people with multiple sclerosis live normal lives, preventing overheating in Ebola workers and cooling working dogs. In a recent trial in women, it helped frosh participants perform hundreds of pushups in an hour.The idea itself isn’t new. The mitten-like device is designed and built to draw heat out of the body...
The world's smallest Mona Lisa
In 2006, Caltech's Paul Rothemund (BS '94)—now research professor of bioengineering, computing and mathematical sciences, and computation and neural systems—developed a method to fold a long strand of DNA into a prescribed shape. The technique, dubbed DNA origami, enabled scientists to create self-assembling DNA structures that could carry any specified pattern, such as a 100-nanometer-wide smiley face.
'Getting in sync' with your baby
Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and learning – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including their gaze, emotions and heartrate, but little is known about whether their brain activity also synchr...
Leoni cables debut in channel with Arrow
Arrow Electronics has signed an agreement with Leoni Special Cables, part of Leoni’s automation & drives business unit, covering Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). It is the first time that Leoni, one of the world’s leading suppliers of cablesolutions, has worked with a global electronics distributor.
Bittium brings enhanced capabilities to new tactical radios
Bittium is part of Operational Capability 1 (OC1) phase that continues the ESSOR (European Secure Software defined Radio) programme. During the OC1 phase, the operational capabilities of ESSOR High Data Rate Waveform (HDR WF), meant for joint operations between defence forces of different countries, will be enhanced.
WES and Lottie show any girl can be an engineer
Over 25 members of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Young Members’ Board (YMB) will be bringing a Lottie Doll to work next week, as part a ‘Lottie Tour’ organised for Tomorrow’s Engineers Week taking place 6th-10th of November. During the week they will be posting photos on Twitter and Instagram of Lottie doing everyday engineering work.
Premature death of star is confirmed by astronomers
A group of Brazilian astronomers observed a pair of celestial objects rarely seen in the Milky Way: a very low-mass white dwarf and a brown dwarf.A white dwarf is the endpoint of the evolution of an intermediate- or low-mass star, with a mass between 0.5 and 8 times that of our Sun. A brown dwarf is a substellar object with mass intermediate between those of a star and a planet.