Why Hybrid Bonding Is Hard to Perfect
The technical fundamentals of hybrid bonding: benefits, detailed process flow, technical requirements, failure modes, and key equipment suppliers
materials
Finally – A Carbon Nanotube Application - NeuroLogica Blog
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…
The Tragedy of 3D XPoint (AKA Intel Optane AKA Micron QuantX)
Too early and too late. Can it be resurrected from the dead?
Mathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreading
With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering
Form Energy and its iron batteries
Form’s 100-hour batteries could make clean energy more weather-resilient and help power data centers.
The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators
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Two Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates | Vals AI
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…
Nobody Expected a Dumpster to Be the Coolest Bag - Yanko Design
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,
How the world was welded
Let's all join together, now...
How SpaceX Streamlined the Raptor Engine
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.
The Graphene Age
Making the miracle from Manchester
America’s machinists are retiring, and two startup founders want to salvage what they know
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.
Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age
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.
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
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.
Possible Production Chokepoint In Large Titanium Castings Vital To U.S. Defense Industry In Oregon
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
Thorium is a marshmallow test.
China & India are sitting on millenia of fuel. The West keeps eating the marshmallow.
The Lost Art of Carrying Loads - Carryology
The conundrum of carrying loads has been met with many fascinating solutions over time, offering valuable insights for modern approaches.
Metal Stamping Guide: Processes, Tooling, and DfM
Learn how metal stamping works, including processes, tooling, materials, tolerances, and DFM best practices for high-volume production.
Just bury your trash - Works in Progress Magazine
You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is
The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.
Changing how eyeglass lenses are made
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
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts - Ars Technica
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...
Sodium-cooled fast reactor
Lead-cooled fast reactors!
Technetium Dreams
All that glitters is not gold: The most valuable things in the world!
Raising a Titan: The story of titanium!
‘Twas Art that moved the beast. And rockets.
Beyond Balloons: The hidden helium crisis
How do we get helium? And what do we use it for?
The Graphene Age
Making the miracle from Manchester
How Carbon Fibre Conquered The World
Just weave and add resin!
7 Packaging Designs That Dissolve, Compost, or Actually Feed You – Plastic’s Replacement Is Here - Yanko Design
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
Seaweed
I found the American dream… in China
Decline and renaissance in El Segundo
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground — Practical Engineering
The Phone in Your Hand
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 Is Damaging the Planet, While Defending It From Climate Change
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…
Inside the First U.S. Aluminum Smelter in 46 Years
The first new U.S. primary smelter since 1980. What it is, how it works, and where its inputs come from.
Forgotten Atlas - Heat exchangers
Heat Exchangers: Designing the titans that hold up our world.
Despite recent successes, rapid reuse of Starship remains a tough nut to crack - Ars Technica
NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
Flat Enough? Warpage Management Gets Harder In Advanced Packaging
As packages get larger and thinner, warpage is becoming a process-control problem rather than a simple flatness spec.
The Glass Famine
Spies, war, industrial subterfuge and secret recipes. And it all really happened. Honestly, what more could you ask for?
Yunnan Germanium's H1 Net Profit Surges Up to 261% on AI-Driven High-Speed Optical Module Boom
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 Chemistry of Chips
The unseen infrastructure of chipmaking
Maersk launches dedicated lithium-ion battery freight service in North America
The new ground transportation offering expands the company’s hazardous materials network as battery production and demand continue to grow.
How the world was welded
Let's all join together, now...
Surface Truths: A Practitioners Guide to CMF Specification
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…
From pottery to hypersonic power
Weaving with stone: The super-ceramic revolution
A Masterclass on Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration
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)
Energy Incarnate! Making the miracle metal.
Caging the lightning: How we make aluminium
The Tank Killer: Making Tungsten
Life, death and new worlds: Gifts from the miracle metal.
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Turbine Tuesday: Forging
The lost art and Turbine economics