Engineering
Planning an afternoon tea to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee? Have you got your jam and cream in? As tasty as these scone toppings are, the amount of energy used to make them is not so tasty.
Jun 1, 2022
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Engineering
When you twist open an Oreo cookie to get to the creamy center, you're mimicking a standard test in rheology—the study of how a non-Newtonian material flows when twisted, pressed, or otherwise stressed. MIT engineers have ...
Apr 19, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Sometimes something sweet requires serious smarts.
Oct 2, 2018
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Business
The US conglomerate General Electric, co-founded more than 130 years ago by Thomas Edison, is opening a new chapter in its history on Tuesday: its break-up into three independent entities which will then concentrate on their ...
Apr 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Thanks to solar energy, residents of the northern Lebanese village of Toula are finally able to enjoy ice cream again—a treat in a sun-baked country plagued by power cuts.
Sep 11, 2022
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Business
The first-quarter 2020 earnings season is as bad as expected, with the coronavirus butchering bottom lines worldwide, except those of Netflix and soap makers.
Apr 23, 2020
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