Six points of contact detect any displacement. LinuxCNC contributor and machining enthusiast [Andy Pugh] is certainly not afraid to try making specialised tools to see how well they work out, and this ...

The new Heidenhain probe is a simple alternative to laser measurement systems. With its newly designed TT 449 tool touch probe, Heidenhain has introduced an infrared tool probe for use with ...

The TS 249 provides trigger signals that are ready for immediate processing by the controls, with no need for an amplifier interface. The new TS 249 introduced by Heidenhain is a compact touch probe ...

The Parker Solar Probe was launched at the Kennedy Space Center early in the morning on Sunday, August 12. It was carried aloft aboard the United Launch Alliances’ Delta IV Heavy rocket. Smithsonian ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

[Gary] sent a few pictures of his latest project our way via Flickr, which we thought a few of you CNC owners might be interested in. He has been working with his CNC machine a lot lately and decided ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force station on its historic mission to the Sun. The probe lit up the night sky as it blasted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT. ...

NASA managers have cleared the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe for launch early Saturday on a daring mission to "touch the sun." The spacecraft will repeatedly fly through the sun's outer atmosphere ...

Next month, NASA will give the sun its close-up. The Parker Solar Probe will begin a seven-year mission to examine the sun's energy, in an effort to better protect people and spacecraft from the ...

Scientists have discovered that as you look at an object, your brain not only processes what the object looks like, but remembers what it feels like to touch it as well. This connection is so strong ...

Humanity’s first visit to a star began this weekend. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will explore the sun’s atmosphere in a mission that launched early Sunday. This is the agency’s first mission to the sun ...