Engineering

Using digital twins for knowledge transfer

Gathering with customers and colleagues at meetings, events, workshops and seminars and collaborating with them in person has always been important—but it is not an option for the foreseeable future. The coronavirus pandemic ...

New lab director expects more work on next wave of reactors

The new director of Idaho National Laboratory said its efforts to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by creating a new generation of nuclear reactors appears to align with the goals of the incoming Biden administration ...

Engineering

Researchers use Kinect to scan T. rex skull

Last year, a team of forensic dentists got authorization to perform a 3-D scan of the prized Tyrannosaurus rex skull at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, in an effort to try to explain some strange holes in ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

'Lean lab' approach enables quick research ramp down

When MIT announced in March that most research labs on campus would need to ramp down to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, Canan Dagdeviren's lab was ready.

Energy & Green Tech

'Super window' could save $10 billion annually in energy costs

About $20 billion worth of energy leaks out of windows in the United States each winter—and that's with double-paned insulating windows installed on a majority of buildings. The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...

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