The carbon nanofiber revolution has been slower than hoped. This is one of the drawbacks of being a technophile and following tech news - you hear about exciting technology years before it is realized, and many of the tantalizing breakthroughs never come to realization. So you…
Too early and too late. Can it be resurrected from the dead?
With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering
Form’s 100-hour batteries could make clean energy more weather-resilient and help power data centers.
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We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made in 1999. We're…
Anyone who has seen me carry my huge tote bag probably wonders how I can find anything inside it. To be honest, it takes me a few seconds, and sometimes even a few minutes, to dig through the seemingly bottomless pit. The bag is deep, and I tend to carry a lot of stuff. Sure,
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If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen this famous image of three iterations of SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine.
Making the miracle from Manchester
Neuramill is building software that captures how experienced machinists decide to make a part, then applies that knowledge to new jobs at aerospace and defense machine shops. The company was founded last year by two engineers in their 20s who started their careers in Seattle.
Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces they left behind.
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
The notion that the U.S.'s large titanium castings capability is concentrated in one 70-mile corridor in Oregon is a production risk scarier than the Bigfoot himself
China & India are sitting on millenia of fuel. The West keeps eating the marshmallow.
The conundrum of carrying loads has been met with many fascinating solutions over time, offering valuable insights for modern approaches.
Learn how metal stamping works, including processes, tooling, materials, tolerances, and DFM best practices for high-volume production.
The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.
Eyeglass lenses have been cast, shipped, and ground the same way for decades. Azul 3D is betting that UV-curable photopolymers and 3D printing offer something better
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...
All that glitters is not gold: The most valuable things in the world!
‘Twas Art that moved the beast. And rockets.
How do we get helium? And what do we use it for?
Making the miracle from Manchester
Just weave and add resin!
Plastic has long been the default choice for packaging because of its durability, flexibility, and low cost. Today, however, designers are proving that high-performance packaging does not have to come at the expense of the environment. Advances in renewable materials, circular…
Seaweed packaging films, molded pulp, mono-material packaging, compostable foams, and dissolvable packaging
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Decline and renaissance in El Segundo
A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate machine you’ve ever held.
The difference is a non-stick coating one molecule thick, and every time you touch the screen a little of it wears away.
fluoropolymers
Concrete makes up half of all human-made stuff on our planet. And its use will double, in part to battle climate threats created by the production of concrete itself. Industry can deliver cleaner versions, but how soon? The answer might lie with four Indonesians from a tiny…
The first new U.S. primary smelter since 1980. What it is, how it works, and where its inputs come from.
Heat Exchangers: Designing the titans that hold up our world.
NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
As packages get larger and thinner, warpage is becoming a process-control problem rather than a simple flatness spec.
Spies, war, industrial subterfuge and secret recipes. And it all really happened. Honestly, what more could you ask for?
Yunnan Germanium issued a preliminary earnings announcement for the first half of 2026, projecting net profit attributable to shareholders of 55 million to 80 million yuan, a year-on-year surge of 148.31% to 261.18%. Excluding non-recurring items, net profit is expected to reach…
The unseen infrastructure of chipmaking
The new ground transportation offering expands the company’s hazardous materials network as battery production and demand continue to grow.
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Surface Truths: A Practitioner’s Guide to CMF Specification Color, Material, and Finish (CMF) is the user’s first physical interaction with any product, yet the specification knowledge required to execute CMF across a global supply chain is rarely documented in one place. This…
Weaving with stone: The super-ceramic revolution
From 2D to 3.5D, a teardown of 2.5D CoWoS (TSV, RDL, Bump/pillar) and emerging trends (Glass, Panels, Bridges in Organic Substrate, and Hybrid Bonding)
Caging the lightning: How we make aluminium
Life, death and new worlds: Gifts from the miracle metal.
The lost art and Turbine economics
TetraMem Inc. today announced that its academic and research collaborators have demonstrated RRAM (memristor) devices capable of reliable operation at temper...