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People will recycle if they can make money doing so. In places where cash is offered for cans and bottles, metal and glass recycling has been a great success. Sadly, the incentives have been weaker for recycling plastic.

To many, the world of production and manufacturing is a mystery.

All my life, I thought leaves departed trees in the fall because they got too old to hang onto the branch and gravity bested their grasp. It does not work that way. Trees literally release their leaves from the limb.

Buildings account for about 40 percent of U.S. energy consumption, and are responsible for one-third of global carbon dioxide emissions. Making buildings more energy-efficient is not only a cost-saving measure, but also a crucial climate-change mitigation strategy.

Last month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw

The future of advanced manufacturing in the United States is being built at innovative facilities that enable experimentation in process and product development.

First published Dec. 7, 2020, on MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) news.

A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists has simulated the droplet-ejection process in an emerging metal 3D-printing technique called “liquid metal jetting” (LMJ), a critical aspect to the c

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