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February 1, 2008
 U.S. Navy fires world's most powerful railgun
Powerful electromagnets can supply enough thrust—up to 32 MJ worth—to send a projectile 200 nautical miles. With a muzzle velocity of mach 7 and an impact rate of mach 5 at full power, this gun doesn't need explosives to destroy its targets. Continue...
 Harvard's lab-on-a-chip breaks protein expression bottleneck
The nucleic acid programmable protein array (NAPPA) greatly simplifies the laborious lab collection by allowing proteins from any gene to be generated on microchips and immobilized in situ. Plexera has purchased Auguron Bioscience to acquire the technology. Continue...
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Electric Compression Press From Carver, Inc.
Carver's all electric E-Series compression press is designed for round-the-clock performance in a lab or on the production floor. The E-Series offers energy savings and is clean, quiet to operate and offers greater precision and reliability over hydraulically driven presses.
Especially suited to clean room and laboratory applications, the electric press is ideal for compression molding rubber/elastomers, gum silicones, various TPR's, thermosets, and plastics. Other uses include various bonding and laminating applications. The unique all electric power/drive system provides accurate ramping of clamp force from 1,000 lbs to 30 tons.
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 NASA's "Chariot" to roam the moon
Designed as a versatile, rugged truck for a 2020 mission to the moon, NASA's lunar rover project, gold rims and all, took a year to build and got design cues from Harrison Schmitt, the last astronaut to drive a rover on the moon.
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Genetic barcodes to speed cancer research
Inspired by RNA interference, researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute created a system to screen huge numbers of genes in parallel, allowing them to identify genes required for cancer growth. So far, they have found dozens of potential new drug targets. Continue...
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Innovation, Product Development and Commercialization
"...presents a holistic framework for the development of high-technology products. It is a book to which every serious student and practitioner of product development should read."
-Robert Carlson, Professor, MS&E Department, Stanford University.
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 Pocket printer by Zink uses no ink
If you have a newer cell phone, chances are you've captured a few memorable photos. But they're hard to see on a tiny screen. Zink's answer: an inkless printer so small it fits in your pocket. Continue...
 Nanonails welcome or repel water at a flip of the switch
Engineers have created a bed of tiny silicon oxide nails packed so tightly liquids rest on top, as if on air. That is, until electrical current applied to the nail shanks allowing the liquids below. Potential uses include batteries, self-cleaning surfaces, and microfluidic systems. Continue...
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High-purity regulators suitable for low-pressure control
 Advanced Specialty Gas Equipment, Middlesex, N.J., has introduced two-stage bar stock body metal diaphragm regulators which provide constant outlet pressure regardless of inlet pressures. They feature a 7 cm dia stainless steel diaphragm providing sensitive pressure control as low as 0.2 psig up to a maximum of 2 psig. Continue...
Northwire's Camera Link flex-tested at 17 million cycles
 The Northwire Inc. Camera Link cable line features 28 AWG conductors and uses EnduroFLEX blended elastomer jacketing material. The cable is abrasion resistant, flame resistant, high- and low-temperature stability, sunlight/UV resistance and water resistance. Continue... |
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