June 21, 2007

In the Metal Powder Industries Federation's annual Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence competition, an end cover for a dipole cryomagnet used in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took top honors in the Other category for atypical PM components.

Toe-cage treads that prevent riders' feet from slipping through stirrups when horses gallop are now available in vibrantly colored hues.

Someday your cell phone could take the Pepsi Challenge.

In 30 years with the metal-stamping industry, I've used plenty of tools for a wide variety of tasks.

Researchers at Sandia National Labs specializing in inorganic synthesis and characterization, modeling, and radiation science have designed a radical system of experiments to study the science of creating metal and alloy nanoparticles.

A team of scientists found the hottest planet ever discovered using NASA's IR space telescope.

Chirality — a spiral-like "handedness" — in nanoscale magnets may play a crucial role in data transmission and manipulation in spintronic devices that use electron spin rather than charge to store data.

The Houston area saw its second beachhead from an automation supplier recently with the opening of a customer technology center there by Phoenix Contact USA.

B+ Equipment, France, created Ultipack, a machine that wedges a corrugated cardboard blank over articles in boxes for shipment.

With the end of the Cold War the Royal Navy changed its submarine-employment strategy to one with an emphasis on anti-submarine warefare to direct support of surface forces.

Virgin Atlantic's purchase of 15 Boeing 787-9s includes an agreement with General Electric and The Boeing Co. to advance founder Richard Branson's environmental interests.

A new method lets self-assembled molecular nanolayers become nanoglue by connecting any two surfaces that normally don't stick well.

During the Hammer Fest downhill mountain bike event on Vancouver Island last Spring, pro rider Dharma Fontaine hit a rock that flattened his rear tire early in the race.

An acoustic revolution was spurred 25 yr ago when ABBA's "The Visitors" album was burned into the first compact discs made from Makrolon polycarbonate (PC) from Bayer MaterialScience (BMS), Pittsburgh.

Researchers at the University of Warwick and Leicester University are coating sensors used by electronic noses with a mix of polymers, mimicking the action of the mucus in the natural nose.

Other powdermetals parts that gleaned an Award of Distinction.

With the end of the Cold War the Royal Navy changed its submarine-employment strategy to one with an emphasis on anti-submarine warefare to direct support of surface forces.

CAD and CAM software from Delcam Inc. of Windsor, Canada (delcam.com), help a medical manufacturer pump out hundreds of thousands of tiny pacing leads every month.