food processing, and industrial automation. Typically, these applications rely on motor-driven vacuum pumps. The standard pumps suffer from drawbacks like high energy consumption, large size ...

A team of researchers from Saarland University is creating lightweight, compact and energy-efficient miniaturized pumps and ...

At its core, the purpose of vacuum-sealing is a simple and noble pursuit: Make food last longer. But until I talked to a bunch of experts for this story and tested a number of vacuum sealers ...