Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Cambridge, Mass., in collaboration with colleagues from Duke and Yale universities, recently developed a method to predict which alloys might form a bulk metallic glass.
Inspired by beavers, engineers at MIT fabricated fur-like, rubbery pelts and used them to identify a mechanism by which air is trapped between individual hairs when the pelts are plunged into liquid.
Directed energy deposition, an important metal additive manufacturing process, is now covered in an ASTM International standard.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, a new center will attack one of the most energy-intensive processes in manufacturing; its research could help save 200 trillion BTUs of energy in U.S. each year.
Stanford University, Calif., bioengineer David Camarillo tested a new type of bike helmet that comes in a soft pocket worn around the neck.
