Tag: Manufacturing
What is a semiconductor? An electrical engineer explains how these critical...
Trevor Thornton, Arizona State University
Semiconductors are a critical part of almost every modern electronic device, and the vast...
Sold-out supplies, serving a public need and other adventures of doing...
Christian L'Orange, Colorado State University; Erin Lavik, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Tony Schmitz,...
Factories of the future: we’re spending heavily to give workers skills...
John Preston, University of Essex
“This government is obsessed with skilling up our population,” said Boris Johnson in his...
Artisan robots with AI smarts will juggle tasks, choose tools, mix...
Glenn S. Daehn, The Ohio State University
Failure of a machine in a factory can shut it down. Lost...
Is Trump’s trade war saving American jobs – or killing them?
Jeffrey Kucik, University of Arizona
With the U.S.-China trade war intensifying, there is a lot of talk about whether tariffs save American jobs – as...
What lies beneath: To manage toxic contamination in cities, study their...
James R. Elliott, Rice University and Scott Frickel, Brown University
Philadelphia’s hip Northern Liberties community is an old working-class neighborhood that has become a model...
How is ‘new NAFTA’ different? A trade expert explains
Amanda M. Countryman, Colorado State University
On Sept. 30, the U.S., Canada and Mexico reached a deal to scrap NAFTA and replace it with a...
Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
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Why are young women without wrinkles using Botox?
Dana Berkowitz, Louisiana State University
The battle against wrinkles has lasted for centuries. Long before surgical facelifts, people ingested powders and potions, stretched their...
