Posts by Lisa McDonald
Discovered: Engineer Blogs!
The world of writing about science/engineering/technology is too big for any of us to seriously worry about “competition” and one…
Read MoreBootleggers beware: Counterfeit whisky easier to detect with new device
Product counterfeiting and media pirating are big problems for the likes of Rolex, Gucci and Universal Studios. As publishers, we,…
Read MoreGallium nitride shows promise for biomedical implants
We live in good times, medically speaking. Creaky, painful knees and hips can be replaced. Arteries can be held open…
Read MoreMaterials Football Game of the Week: Case Western Reserve at Carnegie Mellon
The Game Case Western Reserve University at Carnegie Mellon University Nov. 12, 2:000 p.m., ET These two look-alike schools will…
Read More1 World Trade Center unveils replacement for flawed glass designs
[Image above] New glass sheathing for 1 WTC ‘pedestal” will go below the glass portions that can be seen in…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing (some information from news releases): L&L Kiln introduces the Corona kiln This fiber-lined kiln reaches…
Read MoreMuch ado about nothing … and the study thereof
Being neither a physicist nor a mathematician, Shakespeare probably knew very little about nothing. Try explaining this to the family…
Read MoreNIST Engineering Laboratory posts summaries of new programs and projects
[Image above] Metal powder, and resulting metal parts made from a metal additive manufacturing process developed by the Materials Standards…
Read MoreVideo of the week: ‘Material Marvels’: Yale prof explains materials science in about 3 minutes
[Image above] Ainissa Ramirez, associate professor at Yale and science popularizer, uses bathroom tiles to explain symmetry and five-fold quasicrystal…
Read MoreCan the US afford to pull the plug on SOFC and SECA funding?
No. Will it anyway? Unfortunately, it looks that way, based on the DOE’s 2012 budget request (pdf), which hacks off…
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