Today's Headlines

Mongolia shows the birthing pains of a green economy
New Scientist - Latest Headlines, 17 hours ago
Wind farms and intensive mining: Michael Slezak sees contrasts in Mongolia that reveal the obstacles in a green path to rapid economic growth    
Is there an invisible tug-of-war behind bad hearts and power outages?
PhysOrg, 17 hours ago
Systems such as a beating heart or a power grid that depend on the synchronized movement of their parts could fall prey to an invisible and chaotic tug-of-war known as a "chimera." Sharing its name with the fire-breathing, zoologically patchy creature of Greek mythology, a chimera state arises among...
Video Friday: Quadrotor Acrobatics, Telerobotic Pitcher, and RoboRoach
Oceans Melt Antarctica''s Ice from Below
Atomic Clocks to Become Even More Accurate

Editor Picks

Chemical and Material

Making alternative fuels cheaper
MIT News - Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 17 hours ago
MIT chemical engineers have devised a cheaper way to synthesize a key biofuel component, which could make its industrial production much more cost-effective.The compound, known as gamma-valerolactone (GVL), is attractive because of its versatility, says Yuriy Rom?n, an assistant professor of chemica...
AstraZeneca Buys Pearl Therapeutics
ACS - Chemical & Engineering News, 18 hours ago
Mesoporous Organosilicate Films Using Cross-Linked Micelle Pore Generators
ACS - Chemistry of Materials, 18 hours ago

Civil Engineering

No Tie on Father''s Day: Daughter''s Tribute to Construction Dad
ENR - Construction, Building & Engineering News, 17 hours ago
The daughter of a cement finisher tries to put some distance between her father''s world and herself, but ends up a part of it after all.
Printing artificial bone
MIT News - Civil & Environmental Engineering, 17 hours ago
Tipping point for white Americans ... deaths outnumber births
Builder Online - Construction Trends, 18 hours ago

Electrical Engineering

How Standards Help Shape Tomorrow''s Products
Design News - Electronics & Test, 18 hours ago
Although most design engineers have an opportunity to design hardware and/or software for new products, some also get a chance to shape the industry standards to which tomorrow''s products must conform.
New IEEE 1149.1-2013 supports accessing Silicon Instruments
EE Times - Asia, 17 hours ago
2nd annual Power of Wind Blog Contest for Global Wind Day
Electrical Business Magazine - News, 17 hours ago

Electronics

Microsoft, At Last, Offers Its Office Apps For Apple''s iPhone
CRN - Breaking News, 18 hours ago
The new Office Mobile for iPhone is available free to Office 365 subscribers, potentially providing a boost for the cloud application suite. But Microsoft isn''t offering a version specifically for the iPad.
Atmel pays Infineon over MCU patent dispute
Power Management DesignLine - News, 17 hours ago
Comparator-based buffer using a VVCCS
Electronics Design, Strategy, News - Analog Design, 17 hours ago

General Engineering

Flare star WX UMa becomes 15 times brighter in less than 3 minutes
Science Daily, 17 hours ago
Astrophysicists have detected a star of low luminosity which within a matter of moments gave off a flare so strong that it became almost 15 times brighter. The star in question is the flare star WX UMa.
Biotech meets DIY hacker culture, sparking new wonders and worries
MSNBC Science Headlines, May 28, 2013
Google to launch Wi-Fi balloon experiment
CNN Technology, 17 hours ago

Manufacturing

Court: Pay To Delay'' Generic Drugs Can Be Illegal
Manufacturing.net - Headline News, 18 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can be sometimes be illegal and therefore challenged by federal officials in court.The ju...
How Standards Help Shape Tomorrow''s Products
Design News - Motion Control & Automation, 18 hours ago
Ultrasonic Flowmeters for Paper Pulp; Flowmeter Accuracy
Control Global - Field Instrumentation, 17 hours ago

Mechanical Engineering

Warm and Fuzzy Binary Logic
Control Design - Sensing & Measurement, 18 hours ago
A Heater Control Application Helps Demonstrate Its Effectiveness
A conveyor for small, bantamweight products
Machine Design - Motion Control & Mechatronics, 18 hours ago
Warm and Fuzzy Binary Logic
Control Design - Control Platforms, 18 hours ago

Software

How Standards Help Shape Tomorrow''s Products
Design News - Software & Hardware, 18 hours ago
Although most design engineers have an opportunity to design hardware and/or software for new products, some also get a chance to shape the industry standards to which tomorrow''s products must conform.
Process Control Renovations: DCS Edition
Control Global - Software & Integration, 18 hours ago
Will IT Departments Disappear By 2020?
Network Computing - Top Stories, 18 hours ago

Sustainable Engineering

New Design for Efficient Concentrating Solar Power
EcoGeek, 17 hours ago
Scaling up solar energy collection means addressing a critical problem. While additions like anti-reflective coatings can boost efficiency on solar panels, the more solar energy a collector gathers, the hotter it gets--and if temperatures rise too high the heat could damage the device. A group at IB...
Is the paperless office finally here?
TreeHugger, 17 hours ago
Titanium Oxide Self-Cleaning Compound Increases Air Pollution Instead of Removing It
The Green Optimistic, 17 hours ago

Technology and Research

Tereshkova marks 50 years of her historic flight
AP Top Science News, 17 hours ago
MOSCOW (AP) -- It was another Soviet first in space 50 years ago - putting a woman in orbit. And 26-year old Valentina Tereshkova carried her part with grace, shouting "Take off your hat, sky, I''m coming!" as she blasted off....
Which Of These TV Dads Is Most Like Yours? [Infographic]
Popular Science - Technology, 17 hours ago
Image analysis and processing methods in verifying the correctness of performing low-invasive esthetic medical procedures
Source, 17 hours ago