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Upcoming Science Events and Fairs

Thursday, January 17, 2013

By Christina Nickolas If one of your goals for 2013 is giving back to your community I would recommend for you to volunteer  at a science fair. The following is a brief list for some popular science events going on this year. The website www.volunteermatch.org also provides more opportunites in which you can search by [...]

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Around the World While Staying Home

Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Navy’s new robotic lab reproduces Earth’s ecosystems, all under one roof… How do you give scientists and researchers the real-life experience of being in the desert, the rainforest, or at the ocean shore, without flying them halfway around the world on costly and time-consuming training expeditions? Now there is no longer a need, since [...]

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Life’s Coming Attractions

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Most of us remember Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy, right? Then you likely recall the scene in the second movie where Marty uses his skateboarding skills to escape the bad guys on his hoverboard. Yup, his hoverboard. Do you know what year that scene was set? 2015. So where are the [...]

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Popping corn: a practical use for Twitter

Thursday, August 12, 2010

A unique application for Twitter was demonstrated at the NIWeek conference in Austin, TX, last week. The app — created by Dave Britt, Lead Java Developer and Associate Director at USB Financial Services, Information Services Division / Mutual Funds Systems, and Justin Goeres, senior engineer and product marketing manager at James Kring, Inc. (JKI) and [...]

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Annual MEMS Conference to focus on how MEMS integration is driving commoditization

Thursday, August 12, 2010

At the 6th annual MEMS Executive Congress — which is scheduled to be held at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, AZ, from November 3rd to the 5th — OEMs and business leaders from the MEMS supply chain will examine how the integration of MEMS with other electronic components is enabling new levels [...]

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Robots – How they got off unemployment

Friday, May 28, 2010

By Bryan DeLuca Robots are probably one of the hottest and most interesting topics in engineering today. In many ways it seems humankind has also been a bit obsessed with robots, so far back as they even have many mentions in mythology.  But how did they go from our thoughts and designs to getting their [...]

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Cyborgs – really?

Monday, May 3, 2010

I think of all the fictional robots out there, one of the most feared was the Terminator. The Terminator (Model T-101) was an almost unstoppable killing machine. It had an organic layer that hid its robotic form. It could make logical decisions (for a killer robot) and move like a human. We are far from [...]

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