• Vitro has started the process to recover $1.59 billion damages (PDF) caused by lawsuits filed to put Vitro into involuntary bankruptcy, which were dismissed on appeal. The amount claimed…
Read MoreKismet, a 1990s-era robot made at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has auditory, visual, and facial systems to demonstrate simulated human emotion and appearance. Credit: Jared C. Benedict; Wikimedia. The holiday season…
Read MoreFor years, there have been scads of applications and gizmos based on piezoelectric materials. Nevertheless, I am often intrigued when I see smart use of the stuff. What has most…
Read MoreOn the cover: Cai Zhonghou, beamline scientist at the Advanced Proton Source at Argonne National Laboratory loads a sample into an X-ray nanodiffractometer stage. The cover story reports on the…
Read MoreHere is what we are hearing: Blasch names DeCarlo manager of R&D department (The Business Review) Blasch Precision Ceramics Inc. has created a new position—manager of the research and development…
Read MoreA corrosion prevention project, led by Missouri S&T researchers Bill Fahrenholtz and Matt O’Keefe, was named a “2012 Project of the Year.” Credit: Missouri S&T. Corrosion nibbling away on a…
Read MoreCredit: The Freedonia Group. The 3.3 percent per year growth rate for US refractory sales that has just been predicted by a respected market research group through 2016 isn’t blistering—but I think most…
Read MoreTake a look: Brownwood Clay Holdings announces successful testing of new ceramic proppant using natural resources available near active shale plays Brownwood Clay Holdings, LLC (BCH) announced a revolutionary development…
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