This isn’t materials science, but I think this work by a Yahoo! Research team (appearing as a free download in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) has…
Read MoreGerald Schotman, chief technology officer, Royal Dutch Shell, right, signs the agreement with MIT President Susan Hockfield. (Credit: MIT) MIT announced that Shell and MIT today signed an agreement to…
Read MoreTalk about tantalizing tidbits of technology! There is a new article available online that reports on research showing that green-density yttrium-stabilized zirconia can be sintered to full density in only…
Read MoreLast April I reported on a proposal to grid-lock offshore wind farms with underground transmission lines in order to keep wind power supply stable. By connecting wind farms that lie…
Read MoreHyundai Heavy Industries Chairman Min Keh-sik, left, sits with Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA Chairman Pierre-Andre de Chalendar, center, after HHI and Saint-Gobain agreed to build a new CIGS solar module…
Read MoreAny theories? (The creators, citoplasmas, do a lot of work in stop-action animation.)
Read MoreI usually don’t cover the business and membership side of The American Ceramic Society on these pages, but today is an exception. I am sorry to report that ACerS today officially announced…
Read MoreAt the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to write about, or started to investigate or didn’t even get…
Read MorePrototype energy-efficient home designed by Michelle Kaufmann, on display at theMuseum of Science and Industry, Chicago. Credit: Kaufmann and Wikipedia Commons. The DOE has announced the details on the third…
Read MoreCrystal structure of KNBT after the application of an electric field. The purple spheres are either sodium or potassium atoms, the red spheres are oxygen atoms, the small blue sphere…
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