NioCorp Developments Ltd., Centennial, Colo., and IBC Advanced Alloys, Vancouver, announce that they have entered into a joint development agreement to investigate and develop applications for scandium-containing alloys of aluminum and other metals for multiple downstream markets.
Can-Eng Furnaces Intl. Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has installed and commissioned a 6000 lb/hr continuous mesh belt atmosphere furnace system for the hardening and tempering of high-volume fasteners at Metex Heat Treating Ltd., Brampton, Ontario.
A new microchip contains 1000 independent programmable processors. The energy-efficient KiloCore chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.
Scientists have only found two quasicrystals on Earth. These super rare crystal-like solids have supposedly impossible symmetries. New experiments could explain why they’re so rare: Collisions between asteroids may have caused them.
Pilots and safety officials worry about ice accumulating on the wings and tail of an aircraft flying during freezing rain. Abnormal ice buildup can disturb airflow to alter the physics of flight and lead to stalls, rolls, and high-velocity crashes.
