12+ min ago   (476+ words) Rolls-Royce has completed a $1 billion, decade-long investment in its manufacturing, assembly, and test facilities in Indiana, marking the largest investment the company has made in the United States. “This billion-dollar investment is about more than buildings and test cells — it…...

53+ min ago   (907+ words) Extreme heat does more than make a machine uncomfortable. It can soften metals, damage electronic circuits, break down lubricants, and cause vital components to crack. The challenge is growing as data centers become more powerful and aircraft engines run hotter....

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (482+ words) The Louisiana facility will supply alumina and domestically produced gallium. The United States’ only remaining alumina refinery has secured $800 million in public and private capital to expand domestic alumina output and begin producing gallium, a critical mineral used by industries…...

2+ hour, 57+ min ago   (157+ words) EPACS: F-35’s New Power System To Unlock Future Upgrades Interesting Engineering EPACS: F-35’s New Power System To Unlock Future Upgrades The F-35’s electronics are generating a growing heat problem. Collins Aerospace’s new EPACS system could provide the extra…...

16+ hour, 15+ min ago   (410+ words) Rigaku and Tohoku University have launched a three-year research institute focused on extending X-ray metrology. Rigaku and Tohoku University have opened a research institute aimed at expanding what X-ray metrology can measure inside advanced semiconductor structures. The Rigaku-Tohoku University Co-Creation…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (451+ words) Voya Energy’s aluminum-based system converts scrap metal into electricity without combustion or direct air emissions. Hayward, California-based firm Voya Energy has unveiled an aluminum-based power system that can generate electricity without combustion, while aiming to provide large energy users with…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (509+ words) A separation technology refined for decades by the biotech industry could soon find a new use in rare earth processing. Maglut Heavy Industries has emerged from stealth with ARC-1, a chromatography-based system designed to separate rare earth elements into high-purity…...

3+ day, 29+ min ago   (526+ words) Instead of massive lasers or tokamaks, the machine discharges intense electrical current directly into a target. American startup Pacific Fusion has begun construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and research site in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Engineers at the site plan to…...

3+ day, 18+ min ago   (398+ words) The reactor could help generate data needed to qualify advanced nuclear fuels. The United States could use Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) to accelerate the development and qualification of fuels needed for new and existing…...

3+ day, 29+ min ago   (305+ words) SpaceX will spend at least $100 billion on Starbase Louisiana, a spaceport spread across roughly 125,000 acres of coastal land south of Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish. SpaceX just committed $100 billion to a stretch of Louisiana swamp. It is called Starbase Louisiana,…...