The Peak of the US Driving Boom & US Public Transit Policy
In the town where I grew up outside of Syracuse, New York, cars were so infrequent on the road that I could literally lie in the roadway for 15 minutes, sometimes longer, before I might…
Engineering
Purification Kit for Isolating cfDNA
AMSBIO has announced the launch of its new cfPure™ Cell Free DNA Purification Kit for scalable and automation-friendly isolation of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from patient serum or plasma samples. Circulating cfDNA is normally comprised…
Aerospace Composites Market Set to Double to $32 Billion by 2022
Composite materials are now widely used in many industries and products including airplanes, sailboats, ski equipment, wind turbines, racecars, and medical equipment. Materials science and engineering continue to evolve with new classes of materials with…
Moving Humans Efficiently & Safely with Transportation Engineering & Design
Humans are mobile creatures and the transportation revolutions that have occurred over the past 200 years require that transportation planning, design, and engineering is on a larger scale than ever. Transportation engineering has a number of…
FLIR Gas Imaging Camera for ATEX Zone 2 Locations
The GFx320 Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) camera from FLIR Systems combines proven, innovative technology with the assurance of third-party certification for use inside ATEX Zone 2 (Class I, Div. II) hazardous locations. With new stricter…
Biophotonic Technology Revolutionizing Medical Diagnosis, Treatments
Biophotonics is a new frontier in the medical diagnostics world that is already showing great promise. For example, biophotonics now allows the tagging of single protein molecules inside living cells as they go about their…
Energy Policy, the Health of Our Planet & the Opportunity to Lead
A good engineer or scientist is trained to plan for the worst. While the engineer may hope for the best, his or her job is to think about worst case scenarios in fine detail. The…
Chemical Storage Rule Delayed by the EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to delay putting into effect a new rule that would tighten safety requirements for companies that store dangerous chemicals. This controversial rule was issued in the last week…
Industrial Automation in Life Sciences Maximizes Efficiency, Reduces Cost, Improves Quality
Industrial automation is typically associated with helping companies in traditional heavy industries and industrial manufacturing, but today, industrial automation technology has been meeting the needs of the life sciences industry for nearly four decades. According…
Reversing Global Warming with Carbon Capture & Subterranean Storage Solutions
Clearly, the majority of the world’s countries and major companies are fully on board with the idea that CO2 emissions and the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere are a serious problem that must be…
