How Spintronics Could Revolutionize ComputingProgressively, the world of hardware computing is starting to look beyond silicon chips, or even classical forms of binary computing altogether. This...
Single-Atom Qubits: A New Era for Quantum ComputingQuantum computers are extraordinarily complex machines, exploiting minute variations in the behaviors of individual atoms for computation. As such,...
The International Business MachineComputers have taken over most business activities in recent decades. But some forms of automated data collection and encoding are much older. For...
Sourcing Lithium: Mining vs. Recycling (What Scales Faster?)With the trend of electrification, lithium has quickly become an important global commodity, almost entirely driven by EV adoption.While...
The Importance Of RailWe might think of the modern era as dominated by the combustion engine, planes, and, more recently, electric motors. But the industrial age...
Investing In CardiologyWhen investors look at medicine-related stock, some might think of major health insurers, or hospital chains, or blue chip pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly , for...
When Will Self-Driving Cars Arrive?When it comes to disruptive technologies that seem just around the corner, few appear as impactful for the economy and society at...
Lithium Versus The RestLithium-ion batteries have so far dominated the electrification landscape, in large part due to lithium atoms’ unique electrical properties. Simply put, lithium, being...
Seeing Gravity: How LIGO Detects Gravitational WavesThe history of astronomy is tied to the progress of telescopes, progressively revealing more of the Universe to us. It started...
Texas Instruments: America’s Leading Analog Semiconductor MakerThe tech and semiconductor industries tend to be very focused on the “new big thing”. It can be the latest,...
From Gene To Whole Genome EditingUntil recently, genetic modifications were rather crude, inserting a new genetic sequence randomly into the target organisms. The method of insertion...
GSA Brings ChatGPT Enterprise to Federal AgenciesIn a landmark deal marking the growing influence of AI solutions at the highest levels, the U.S. General Services Administration...
Building Electronics for High-Radiation EnvironmentsElectronics are at the core of almost any technology invented in the past decades. As the world digitalizes even more processes and...
Engineering Challenges of the Site C DamSome megaprojects are remarkable for the extreme precision of their technology, like the James Webb Space Telescope or the CERN particle...
Why Lithium Is Critical to the Energy TransitionFor most of human history, lithium was a relatively irrelevant metallic compound with little practical application.This started to change...