When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety did a routine crash test of the 2005 Hyundai Elantra recently, consumers got a bonus: The institute discovered two safety defects that might otherwise ...

You would think that if you worked as a track inspector for a railroad company, reporting defects would make you good at your job. After all, wouldn't the company want to know where its trains should ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Federal inspectors said they found an alarming number of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific was using at the world’s largest railyard in western Nebraska this summer, ...

Detecting defects within MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) is not an easy task. The components inside these structures are a varied mix of electrical circuits, mechanical devices, and sensors. The ...

Catching all defects in chip packaging is becoming more difficult, requiring a mix of electrical tests, metrology screening, and various types of inspection. And the more critical the application for ...

Several vendors are ramping up new inspection equipment based on infrared, optical, and X-ray technologies in an effort to reduce defects in current and future IC packages. While all of these ...

As semiconductor manufacturers aim to produce devices at the 5-nanometer node, the ability to find tiny defects created inadvertently during the fabrication process becomes harder. In addition, there ...

WASHINGTON — Federal safety officials accused General Motors of being slow to recall vehicles after finding defects, documents made public this week reveal. GM paid $1 million last year to settle the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — As the city of Tampa continues to work to improve its wastewater infrastructure, crews took time Tuesday morning to conduct a smoke test in neighborhoods in hopes of finding flaws with ...

While the failure rate for dental implants remains low, failures do occur, sometimes as a result of peri-implantitis. But to understand the cause of implant failure using an imaging modality, is ...

Researchers believe they’ve found a way to detect fetal congenital heart defects earlier in a woman’s pregnancy, which could help reduce infant mortality. Using a simple blood test and artificial ...