Corning’s media department continues to crank out some very good, brief videos on the company’s glass and ceramics technologies. “At the Speed of Light” is one of the latest examples…
Read MoreTake a break and take a look: China cuts rare earth mining rights by half to aid consolidation (Bloomberg/Businessweek) – China, the supplier of 90 percent of the world’s rare…
Read More[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/icc4_poster_session.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/icc4_poster_session.jpg}] My hats off to the ICC4 for taking a risk—one that in retrospect was clearly worth it—to offer and hold two opportunities for 25 participants each…
Read MoreAccording to a release from Rice University scientists and students in a research group call their mixture “strain paint” and are hopeful it can help detect deformations in structures such…
Read MoreUTC fuel cell transit bus, similar to the one that may be tested in Cleveland. Credit: UTC; Greater Cleveland RTA. Once again, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and NASA…
Read MoreIt’s not often that the life and work of someone who labors in the fields of in materials science and chemistry is profiled in a magazine like The New Yorker—better…
Read MoreAbout two weeks ago, I wrote about a startup company founded by two ex-materials science students that goes by the name of Power Practical. The company has developed some nifty…
Read MoreAttentive readers will have noticed that I am a fan of the Scholarly Kitchen’s Friday blogger, Kent Anderson. Today he posted two interesting videos showing wind patterns that look like…
Read MoreTexas A&M mechanical engineering student, John Mayo, wondered if it’s true what they say about ceramics – that they are strong in compression. Armed with his pick-up truck and four…
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