The Environmental Protection Agency's new emission standards require an investment into the US infrastructure for electric vehicles, experts say, to ensure the standards can go into effect in 2032. "We need a lot of transmission to handle all the goals we need to accomplish," said Nikki Hsu, a utility analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.

The Aerospace Industries Association is advising member companies to meet NIST Special Publication 800-171 standards in order to be well positioned for the upcoming release of the Pentagon's updated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Details of the program are still emerging.

New technologies in sliding gates have created the need for an update to one of the industry's most important standards.

Demand for energy storage will continue to grow in the US, but a lack of national standards and regulations are a barrier to competitiveness, asserts the Government Accountability Office in a new report. The GAO is recommending national standards for energy storage integration, road maps, support for research and development and support mechanisms such as loan guarantees.

The serialization of 3D printing will allow manufacturers to produce parts and pivot between different ones more rapidly, Christian Lengwenat, an application engineer at Trumpf, writes. Rapid advances in the technology mean serialization isn't far behind, though Lengwenat outlines several current kinks in the process, but learning more now about additive manufacturing fundamentals on an inexpensive printer will make the leap to more fruitful 3D-printing production lines easier.

Researchers from North Carolina State University 3D-printed cell types from soybeans and the plant Arabidopsis Thaliana to see if it is a viable way to study cell communication and how long 3D-printed plant cells would survive. They found that more than 40% of the soybean embryonic cells they produced divided over time and remained viable two weeks after being printed, and with the Arabidopsis plant, they found they needed to give the cells a structure similar to that found in nature to make the cells viable.

The US FDA first approved a 3D-printed drug, Aprecia Pharmaceuticals' levetiracetam, in 2015, and a large-molecule 3D-printed drug may be on the horizon. Scientists with University College London, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and FabRx used a method of additive manufacturing called semi-solid extrusion to make suppositories containing the inflammatory bowel disease drug infliximab, and they say the dosage form could improve patient adherence and outcomes.

Ergo, a compact hydrodemolition robot made by Aquajet, was used to repair a more than 300-foot-tall wall of a concrete cement plant silo in La Robla, Spain, that lacked structural connections between the inner and outer layers of concrete. With a four-week timeline, contractor Fixen Structural Services used the Ergo to remove two nearly 150-foot vertical sections of wall each day and then filled open spaces with fluid mortar.

Complaining about issues with a job can be helpful but only to a point, say experts, who pose questions people can ask themselves to evaluate whether change is possible or whether it's time to look for a new job. "I believe the tipping point is when you have sought the guidance and compassion from others that you need, and you continue to still complain about the job or your boss," says licensed clinical social worker Jordan White.

ASTM International's security systems and equipment committee (F12) has developed and approved several standards designed to assess the performance of security screening technologies. Learn more here.