Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material exceptional properties.
In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.”
Beehive Industries leverages cutting-edge additive manufacturing to create precision components for jet engines in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility.
When Jonaaron Jones started his master’s degree at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UT), his mentor invited him to visit the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Ryan Walton (left) and Ryan Lewis orient a WiSPR unit for testing.
A team from MIT Lincoln Laboratory has built and demonstrated wide-band selective propagation radar (WiSPR), a system capable of seeing out various distances at millimeter-wave (mmWave or MMW) frequencies.
What’s the hottest thing in electronics and high-performance computing? In a word, it’s “cool.”
One of the key findings in Greenlight Guru’s 2025 Medical Device Industry Re
A few months ago I visited a potential customer, a high-tech startup, which like many Boston-area tech companies is developing astounding products that would have been considered science fiction only 10 years ago.
Every day, quality leaders face a variety of production and process issues. Although some problems are easy to fix, others require deeper investigation, such as using a 5 Whys analysis or fishbone diagram.
Working on a bomber, Douglas Aircraft Co., Long Beach, California, 1942.
The Chinese character for crisis means “danger” and “opportunity,” and tariffs have created a supply chain crisis throughout the United States.
When an ordinary beam of neutrons strikes the team’s silicon grating, the millions of scored lines on the grating convert the neutrons into an Airy beam with a wavefront that travels along a parabolic path. The triangular shapes on the detector match the predicted behavior of an Airy beam, offering evidence of the team’s success.
In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves.
Toshiro Mifune and Daisuke Kato in the 1950 film Rashomon.
When we step into a complex organization—whether in manufacturing, healthcare, or finance—we often find ourselves navigating a sea of competing truths. Everyone seems certain they see the problem clearly. Yet somehow, solving it feels harder than it should.
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