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Countless articles and books give advice on meetings: Define the purpose. Create an agenda. Invite the right people. Be prepared. Start and end on time. Stay on topic. Put away the electronic devices. These basic rules of etiquette are simple, but...
January
2018
Pharmaceutical companies use a variety of metal catalysts to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). One of the most widely used catalytic reactions in commercial operation is the Suzuki cross-coupling reaction, which can produce high-...
January
2018
Statistical Process Control: A Pragmatic Approach Stephen Mundwiller, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, $99.95, 116 pages, Oct. 2017, ISBN: 978-1-49879-913-3 Even those with advanced math skills may find it difficult to grasp the theories that underlie...
January
2018
Food engineering (FE) has been important in bringing ubiquitous, abundant, safe, varied, and cheap food to a large proportion of the world’s population. However, modern consumers expect food suppliers ( e.g., food processing industries, food service...
January
2018

Ultrasound Probe Views the Inside of Cells

January
2018
Peering inside living cells just got a little easier. A new ultrasound probe allows researchers to see down to the nanoscale within cells in real time without staining or dyes.

Sea Urchin Spines Inspire Stronger Cement

January
2018
Concrete has been a mainstay in construction for millennia. Most forms of concrete, however, have an unordered structure. Although concrete’s tremendous compressive strength allows it to be used in dams and bridges, this lack of a fixed structure takes a toll on concrete’s elasticity and flexural strength.

New Technique 3D Prints Living Materials

January
2018
Although most 3D printers produce objects from inorganic matter, an international team of scientists has developed a way for their prints to take on a life of their own.

New Gene-Editing Method Works without Cutting DNA

January
2018
A new version of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology allows researchers to alter the genome not by slicing and dicing it, but by activating desirable genes.

Engineers Put Two-Dimensional Semiconductors under Strain

January
2018
A key part of designing semiconductors is engineering them with built-in strain, which changes the semi-conductors’ optical and electrical properties. That’s old news for standard, 3D semiconductors. But now, researchers have found a way to engineer strain into cutting-edge two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor materials.

Coating Process Boosts Surface Area of Nickel Nanoparticles

January
2018
An inadvertent discovery may open up new doors for advanced nickel catalysts.

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