This video about the ITER nuclear fusion project in Europe shows the best animation yet of a tokamak in action.
ITER Nuclear Fusion
Composite curing oven to support aerospace research at University of South Carolina
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy., Wis., has shipped a composite curing batch oven to the McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research at the University of South Carolina.
British universities form consortium to optimize steel for railroad track
The University of Huddersfield, England, announces that its researchers will take part in a new $3 million railway steel development project backed by major funding groups.
Cerium-cobalt alloy added to NdFeB magnets raises Curie temperature, cuts cost
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, reports that ASM Fellow Karl A. Gschneidner and a team of researchers have developed a low-cost cerium-cobalt alloy that can be added to neodymium-iron-boron to improve magnetic properties in rare-earth magnets.
Microporous copper foam with relative density of 37% is effective heat sink
Goodfellow, England, offers a microporous copper foam with pore sizes between 300 and 600 µm and a relative density of around 37%.