Tag: Manufacturing
Fresh water is a hidden challenge − and opportunity − for...
Dustin Cole, Auburn University
Reports of lengthy shipping delays for vessels traveling through the Panama Canal this year have...
Glass: Neither a solid nor a liquid, this common yet complicated...
John Mauro, Penn State and Katelyn Kirchner, Penn State
Glass is a material of many faces: It is both...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
