Ipsen TurboTreater heat treats castings for aerospace applicationsIpsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped a horizontal TurboTreater vacuum furnace with two-bar gas quenching to a metal-casting company in Texas.
Light it up: Materials crystallize with surprising propertiesResearchers report a new material that could change shape or texture when touched.
Separating rare earth metals with UV lightResearchers from the University of Leuven (KU), Denmark, Department of Chemical Engineering discovered a method to separate two rare earth elements—europium and yttrium—with UV light instead of with traditional solvents.
Microscope captures fermionic atomsFermions are the building blocks of matter, interacting in a multitude of permutations to give rise to the elements of the periodic table.
Solar sailing team prepares for flightLightSail is a citizen-funded project by The Planetary Society, Pasadena, Calif.