R&D World

Established in 1959 as Industrial Research, R&D Magazine, now known as R&D World, has been a valuable resource for research scientists, engineers, and technical staff in laboratories globally. The Controlled Environments segment of R&D World delivers up-to-date information on the latest trends, technologies, and applications relevant to professionals operating in cleanrooms and other essential environments. Meanwhile, the Scientific Computing section highlights new products, services, and technologies tailored for the scientific community. For over six decades, the R&D 100 Awards have stood as the leading innovation awards program, celebrating groundbreaking R&D innovators and their transformative contributions in science and technology.

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Compact AI model lets ESP32 microcontroller predict network failures and memory leaks in real time

1 week ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

Santa Clara-based startup OTAinfo has introduced an on-device AI system designed to enhance reliability on Espressif’s popular and low-cost ESP32 microcontrollers. The embedded intelligence layer, which the company compared in a LinkedIn post to “ChatGPT for ESP32,” runs entirely within the device’s firmware using only 32 kb of memory to predict network communication failures and prevent memory leaks in real-time.
Artemis III Orion powers on at Kennedy, marking milestone for Moon-landing push

1 week ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

Assembly and testing of NASA’s Artemis III Orion spacecraft are progressing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This spacecraft is slated to carry astronauts on the first crewed lunar landing mission since Apollo 17 in December 1972. Recent milestones included the initial power-on of the crew module’s core avionics, which include two redundant vehicle-management computers and six power-and-data units. This event marked the transition from assembly to a comprehensive series of subsystem checks.
CAS maps the 'Triangle of Success' for AI in scientific research

1 week ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

When many organizations first started with AI, many assumed more data is always better. While in some cases, more data volume does lead to better performance, sometimes added data can hurt. “Garbage in, garbage out, still applies to AI,” said Michael W. Dennis, Ph.D., vice president, legal, PMO, and innovation for CAS.
SpaceX achieves first Super Heavy reuse in Starship Flight 9

1 week ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

SpaceX successfully launched Starship Flight 9, marking the first re-flight of a Super Heavy booster, the reusable first stage of its Starship system. Lifting off from Starbase, Texas, after a couple of brief holds at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, the mission prioritized aggressively testing the reused first stage.
MIT's new sodium fuel cell beats lithium for regional aviation

1 week ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

Researchers have chased practical electric aviation for decades, especially for short‑haul routes, but progress remains slow. Projects such as all-electric helicopter Sikorsky Firefly (2010), the Airbus E-Fan (2017), the experimental aircraft NASA’s X-57 Maxwell (2023), and nine-passenger commuter Tecnam’s P-Volt (2023) stalled when current batteries proved too heavy, delivered too little energy, or degraded faster than operators could tolerate.
Unilever R&D head lifts lid on AI, robots and beating the ‘grease gap’

2 weeks ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

For many people, the personal-care aisle may be the last place you associate with machine learning. But for UK-based Unilever, decades of hair-protein data and more than 500 live AI projects have turned those shampoo and skin care shelves into a proving ground. Creating that foundation has been something of a “journey” over the years, according to Tiffany Yizar, the company’s head of beauty and wellbeing R&D in North America.
White House fast-tracks nuclear R&D while mandating 'gold standard science'

2 weeks ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to slash reactor-licensing reviews to 18 months and instructed every federal science agency to follow a newly defined “gold standard science” playbook that emphasizes reproducibility, transparent data and conflict-of-interest checks.
Will consumer AI hardware be the next R&D battlefield?

2 weeks ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

AI is proving to be a disruptive force for the hardware sector, which has recently shed tens of thousands of jobs. Intel alone has revealed plans to reduce its workforce by over 20%, equating to some 22,000 workers. But at the same time, many hardware firms are ramping up investments in AI, even as they cut workers.
When data goes missing: How poor data management can undermining research reproducibility

2 weeks ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

Imagine you’re midway through a time-sensitive lab procedure when a Slack ping hits your laptop: “Hey, do you still have those high-res .tiff files from last quarter’s microscopy experiments? A journal editor says he needs them by the end of the day. Sorry, I didn’t let you know sooner.”You don’t recall where they are. You freeze up, and then pull yourself together. Maybe they are on the very laptop you are using. You fire a few plausible-sounding names into a string of search queries and get back.
LLNL turns Bay Area fiber into 8,000 quasi seismometers

2 weeks ago | rdworldonline.com | Brian Buntz

Using an “interrogator” device to activate 50 miles of dormant fiber-optic cable, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory seismologists created a network of 8,000 virtual sensors, recording March’s 3.9 magnitude Dublin earthquake with unprecedented detail, achieving 1,000 times the observational density of current seismic networks. “The detail of the seismic wave field was unprecedented,” said Lab seismologist Gene Ichinose.