The University at Buffalo, N.Y., has received a $2.9 million National Science Foundation grant to transform the traditional role of a database as a repository for information into an automated computer laboratory that rapidly collects, interprets, and learns from massive amounts of information.
The Voestalpine Group, Austria, has opened a direct iron reduction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, at a cost of $740 million, the largest investment ever made in the United States by an Austrian company.
Fractal metamaterials triumph! The quest for front scatter has been realized. Watch a metal wall (monolith) get cloaked with fractal metamaterials, producing front scatter at nearly the intensity of the unobstructed path. Narrated by invisibility cloak source inventor, Nathan Cohen.
Members of Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Additive Manufacturing Initiative, Calif, are among a group of researchers who have developed 3D printed materials with a unique property—instead of expanding when heated, they shrink.
As U.S. coal production declines due to the rise of natural gas and alternative energies, the question remains: What will happen to those communities of coal workers?
