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Radio Interference May Cause Malfunction in Amtrak’s New Anti-crash System

 

Amtrak is working on an anti-crash system to prevent high-speed derailments, like the fatal derailment in Philadelphia P.A. last month that killed eight passengers, injured hundreds and caused more than $9.2 million worth of damages. However, the anti-crash system may malfunction near freight railroads. Radio interference from freight rails may disable Amtrak’s anti-crash … [Read more...]

New RF & Microwave Test Accessories Catalog Available

 

Keysight Technologies introduces a RF & Microwave catalog that offers more than 200 pages of information on test accessories. Some accessories described in-depth in the catalog include detectors, directional couplers, mixers, power dividers, splitters and PXI modular test accessories. The catalog also offers new product highlights, comparison tables, and a product … [Read more...]

Electromagnetic Catapult Successfully Launches Dead Load Truck into River

 

Earlier this week, the U.S. Navy began dead load testing the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EALS) on the Gerald R. Ford CVN 78. The electromagnetic slingshot launched an 80,000 pound dead load truck into the James River in Virginia. The truck reportedly weighed as much as a jet. Even though the truck wasn’t airborne for too long before hitting the water, the test … [Read more...]

Woman Fights Cancer with Electric Fields

 

Elizabeth Marek, a mother of two from St. Louis Missouri, has a deadly form of brain cancer known as Glioblastoma, which has no cure and a life expectancy of two years after diagnosis. A small tumor was found in her brain after she started experiencing aggressive headaches, and surgeons at Washington University removed the tumor in an emergency surgery. Eventually, a second … [Read more...]

Company Expands Services to East Coast

 

ESDGuns.com announces the opening of a new service center in New Brunswick, N.J. The company now has two offices in the U.S. – one on the west coast (in Roseville, Calif.) and the new center on the east coast. “The service center will focus on calibrations and repairs of electrostatic discharge test equipment, hardware and accessories. Capabilities include NIST and A2LA … [Read more...]

Electromagnetic Fields Could Delay Alzheimer’s Disease in Rats

 

A team of researchers in China have published a study that suggests exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF) delays the development of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in rats. The study, titled “Improvement of Spatial Memory Disorder and Hippocampal Damage by Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields in an Alzheimer’s Disease Rat Model” was published in the … [Read more...]

University’s Light Rail Yields Potential Electromagnetic Interference to Expensive Lab Equipment

 

A University of Minnesota light rail reportedly causes electromagnetic radiation and vibrations, which could disturb university research in chemistry and medical departments, the Minnesota Daily reported. For more than a year, Metro Transit and the Metropolitan Council have attempted to reduce the electromagnetic disturbances from the Green Line Light Rail. The University of … [Read more...]

Real-time Spectrum Analyzer Measures Frequencies up to 27 GHz

 

Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation introduces its new Model RTSA7500 – a real-time spectrum analyzer that can measure up to 27 GHz. The spectrum analyzer is cost-effective and powerful; it costs less than $14,000 and can measure frequency ranges from 100 kHz to 8 GHz, 18 GHz, or 27 GHz. “The Model RTSA7500 has all the standard features of a spectrum analyzer such as frequency … [Read more...]

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