Is a predisposition toward certain behaviors or occupations part of nature or nurture? That’s a question still being debated by social and behavioral scientists. This week’s cartoon, from the July 1955…
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DOE solicits FY2014 hydrogen and fuel cell proposals (pdf) The U.S. Department of Energy announced its initial Fiscal Year 2014 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer…
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Researchers from Uppsala University’s Nanotechnology and Functional Materials Division, Sweden, have developed a novel magnesium carbonate material with world record breaking surface area and water adsorption properties, according to this…
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Iluka Resources Ltd. expects to produce more zircon this year than previously forecast, as global demand for the mineral used for making ceramics increases. The Australian mining company lifted its…
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Iron oxide provides foundation for nanotubes in NASA’s ‘super-black’ optical absorber NASA has achieved yet another milestone in its quest to advance an emerging nanotechnology that promises to make…
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Artist’s rendering shows how the Fraunhofer IAO building in Stuttgart, Germany could be fitted with a colorful solar façade. Credit: Fraunhofer IOF. Until now, covering a building’s roof or façade…
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Concurrent engineering, collaborative engineering, simultaneous engineering—whatever they may have been called, many approaches have been tried to bridge the gap between product designers and the folks whose job it is…
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British ceramics makers play baby waiting game (AP) It’s a royal bonanza—but for Britain’s souvenir makers, it’s also a royal headache. The upcoming birth of Prince William and his wife…
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Applications ranging from atomic clocks to medical diagnostics and calibrating astronomy instruments require laser light at various controlled frequencies. That requires frequency combs, which measure different colors of light. Now…
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The Department of Energy’s network of 17 national laboratories and five related facilities has been responsible for a multitude of materials science and other innovations since World War II. Now…
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