Cardinal Glass Industries committed to the world’s first carbon capture installation at the company’s Cardinal FG float glass facility in Winlock, Wash. Cardinal issued purchase orders and paid deposits for critical and long-lead project items. System operations are planned for the first quarter of 2029.
Lucideon unveiled plans for a £500 million research center based at Keele University in Staffordshire, U.K. The site will supply ceramic matrix composites for aerospace, defense, and nuclear applications.
Kyoto Fusioneering plans to move its U.S. headquarters to Oak Ridge, Tenn. As part of this move, the company will develop UNITY-3, a first-of-its-kind fusion nuclear test facility to be built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through a public–private partnership announced earlier in 2026.
The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $50 million in research infrastructure to enable the discovery and development of materials that can withstand extreme conditions, from lightweight composites for better armor to superalloys for fusion energy reactors. The funding will establish two new NSF Materials Innovation Platforms.
The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $108 million in six advanced materials research centers. The centers will explore a broad range of scientific frontiers, such as exotic materials (where light and matter are effectively fused together as hybrid particles) and soft materials (which can potentially deliver medicines precisely within the human body).
Syntropic Power and UNIGRID Inc. announced a strategic partnership to commercialize UNIGRID’s sodium chromium oxide battery technology in North America and establish a pathway to U.S. production.
3M joined educators and community leaders in Clinton, Tenn., to spotlight efforts that expand student access to hands-on learning and career pathways in advanced manufacturing. The programs include investments at Anderson County Career & Technical Center and Clinton High School, where students are gaining exposure to technical skills and modern equipment.
Scientifica, the science festival organized by ETH Zürich and the University of Zürich , kicks off on August 22 and will run for nine days. It will offer exclusive glimpses into research labs and behind-the-scenes looks at Zürich’s municipal enterprises. In total, more than 200 different events will take place.
Mauritius, Mozambique, and the Republic of the Congo joined Malawi, Kenya, and Madagascar in calling for a pause on deep-sea mining during the 2026 International Seabed Authority meeting. Globally, about 40 countries have formally called for a moratorium or precautionary pause. In contrast, China, India, and the U.S. have moved to accelerate development.
Researchers at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research showed how pursuing secure critical material supply chains has increasingly pushed sustainability principles into the background. The study also highlights how researchers can help to strengthen sustainability principles in political discourse.
Samsung presented its vision for next-generation memory and storage solutions for both artificial intelligence and general-purpose applications at the Future of Memory and Storage 2026 conference. The company’s zHBM, zNAND-O, and BV-NAND technologies are for different applications but all rely on wafer bonding.
ClearVue created a new manufacturing capability that will allow it to develop energy-generating glass. The technique will enable the company’s energy-generating Gen 3 Vision Glass to be specified and processed using the same systems as conventional commercial glazing. It was successfully demonstrated at AGC Interpane’s facility in Plattling, Germany.
Strategic Asset Intelligence Infrastructure Ltd. launched a strategic mineral intelligence platform that turns information on African mineral exploration assets into data that investors can use to evaluate mining investment opportunities across Africa.
