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Waterproofing electronics is a popular topic among device users these days. Nobody wants to lose their smartphones or tablets to a water accident. And now there's a spray-on water repelling coating being developed that is reported to be one…

All over the world, lakes, rivers, and coastal waters are threatened by high nutrient inputs. Nitrate or phosphates from waste-waters or fertilizers causes eutrophication. The consequence: Algae, in particular cyanobacteria (blue-green…

Icon Labs has announced a new resource for embedded designers working with IoT applications: a white paper focusing on “Device Security for the IIoT”. Developed with Renesas Electronics America, a premier supplier of advanced…

NASA are already testing concepts that could be candidates, as their aeronautics engineers prepare to develop a series of greener, quieter, faster X-planes. One of those is a Blended Wing Body (BWB). A 6% scale model of a Boeing BWB is…

Ultracapacitors have recently become attractive forms of energy storage: They recharge in seconds, have very long lifespans, work with close to 100% efficiency, and are much lighter and less volatile than batteries. But they suffer from low…

Loaded with instruments and an extendable robotic arm, an SUV-sized spacecraft, will soon be barreling toward a space rock, on a round-trip journey that promises to return an unprecedented souvenir: extraterrestrial soil, taken directly…

A contract has been signed between ESA and Arianespace to secure the launch of the Aeolus satellite. With this milestone, a better understanding of Earth’s winds is another step closer. The contract, worth €32.57m, was signed at ESA…

Thirty percent of adult deaths in the 30−70 year age group, are attributed to cardiovascular diseases, which is greater than the combined deaths from all types of cancer. The ability to diagnose cardiac disease is therefore of utmost…

2016 RB1, a small asteroid, safely flew past Earth September 8th at 10:20am PDT (1:20pm EDT/17:20 UTC) at a distance of about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers, or just less than 1/10th the distance of Earth to the moon). Because the…