Recent trade wars between the United States and other countries have raised the question: Who pays the price when countries raise tariffs or impose other import duties?
Economics & Business
Apr 23, 2019
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The Food and Drug Administration wants the pharmaceutical industry to get away from making drugs using the traditional batch method and switch to a more modern process known as continuous manufacturing.
Engineering
Mar 7, 2019
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CAPE is a transportable, tent-like cleanroom facility developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. It can be installed both indoors and in unexposed outdoor locations, ...
Engineering
Mar 1, 2019
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Amazon on Thursday announced a new initiative to crack down on the sale of counterfeit goods on its platform which could allow brands themselves to take down listings of fake merchandise.
Business
Feb 28, 2019
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As part of his master's project, the chemical engineer Mario Stucki developed a breathable, environmentally friendly membrane for rain jackets. With his colleague Anna Beltzung, he has since founded the spin-off Dimpora to ...
Materials Science
Feb 21, 2019
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Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needed a way to secure smart manufacturing systems using the digital thread , so they turned to the new kid on the block ... blockchain, that is.
Internet
Feb 11, 2019
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A Purdue University researcher has designed what he calls a "minimal chair" that can be shipped in a thin flat box, taking only seconds to assemble without tools, as part of an effort to create furniture design processes ...
Engineering
Jan 9, 2019
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Previously unexploited organic waste can be converted into biofuel, with technology developed by researchers from the EU BIOGO project.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 29, 2018
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Technology originally developed in work with NASA to help lunar colonies may soon be heating the food found on many holiday dinner tables.
Engineering
Nov 29, 2018
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The volume of edible food that is wasted is staggering. In 2017, the UN estimated that almost a third of all food that is produced is discarded. Edible food makes up approximately 1.3 gigatonnes of this (one gigatonne is ...
Environment
Sep 5, 2018
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