Two teams at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA are being funded to investigate the use of gallium nitride (GaN) to enhance space exploration. Engineer Jean-Marie ...
Tags: GaN transistors, GaN Crystal
ILC Dover is set to unveil new Xtrakt Bulk Liquid Dispensing System for customers in the personal care, chemical and food industries at this year’s Pack Expo event in Las Vegas. Pack Expo will take place from 25 to 27 September. ...
Domino's is ready to let its driverless delivery vehicles loose in Europe for the very first time. The six-wheeled vehicles, which resemble something you’d expect to see Nasa landing on the moon, are being debuted by Domino’s ...
Tags: six-wheeled vehicles, Domino
Japanese automaker Nissan is demonstrating its seamless autonomous mobility (SAM) system at CeBIT computer expo in Germany. The SAm system, which was developed from NASA, was initially demonstrated at this year’s CES. SAM works in ...
Tags: Nissan, Autonomous Mobility System
Now Elon Musk has floated the possibility of moving us all to Mars, you might want to start checking out the real estate options on The Red Planet. Assuring you’re rocking a PSVR or HTC Vive headset, you can temporarily become a ...
Tags: VR Experience, HTC Vive headset
Jing Zhang, an engineering faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received a $305,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire an inductively coupled plasma reactive-ion etching (ICP-RIE) system for ...
Tags: RIT, NSF, ICP-RIE system
Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, which manufactures multi-junction solar cells and panels for concentrated photovoltaic and spacecraft power systems, says that it has begun manufacturing a higher-efficiency space solar ...
Tags: Spectrolab, Solar Cell
Inventions Oasis is seeking a joint venture partner to help bring to market a new patent-pending product – the Sav–A-Lot – a commercial-grade, milk and sugar dispenser designed for coffee shops and fast food restaurants. ...
Tags: Inventions Oasis, Milk, Sugar Dispenser
A new interactive programme, Mission to Space is an online summer activity pack that encourages youngsters to explore space through a series of online building challenges. LEGO is marking a new chapter in its ongoing relationship with ...
Tags: LEGO, NASA, building challenge
Washington State University researcher Shyam Sablani has received a $450,000 grant to develop plastic packaging that will extend the shelf life of prepared food up to five years. The packaging would be used for commercial purposes, ...
Wolfspeed of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA – a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) wide-bandgap semiconductor devices – says that its GaN-on-SiC RF power transistors have completed testing ...
Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
Tags: LED Light, LED lighting
China backed electric and autonomous vehicle startup Faraday Future has unveiled its first concept car, ‘FFZERO1 Concept’, a self driving Batmobile style car capable of producing up to 1,000hp. The car is powered by 4 Quad ...
A Russian space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, bringing home a three-person crew from the International Space Station, including a record-breaking Russian cosmonaut. Russia's Gennady Padalka, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space ...
Tags: World Record, Total Days in Space
U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
Tags: NASA, Liquid Water, Mars