Manufacturing

Rethinking Military Logistics in Contested Environments In today’s era of multi-domain warfare, logistics has become as strategic as firepower. Modern battlefields, particularly in contested or resource-depleted environments, challenge the assumption of uninterrupted access to high-quality materials and long supply chains. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recognizes this evolving …

  For decades, the pace of computing advancement has been measured by Moore’s Law—the observation that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. Yet, as computational power has surged, energy efficiency has lagged dangerously behind. The mismatch has grown stark in high-performance domains like energy research. …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed explosive growth in recent years, evolving far beyond basic tasks like image classification or natural language processing. With the emergence of generative AI and increasingly complex models, the computational demand has surged to levels that are straining conventional hardware architectures. Despite advancements in CPUs, GPUs, …

Concerns over climate change have prompted governments to start focusing on finding alternative sources of energy. As such, EVs, and the battery technologies associated with them, have gained an increasing importance in recent years. In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, governments have adopted various strategies to spur …

The $30 Trillion Bio-Horizon Synthetic biology, once a frontier science confined to academic labs, is rapidly evolving into an economic powerhouse. By 2030, it is projected to influence more than one-third of global manufacturing output—an estimated $30 trillion sector. Powering this seismic transformation is the emergence of biofoundries: fully automated …

Introduction Picture a fresh, crisp lettuce leaf harvested inside a Martian greenhouse. This is no luxury—it’s a necessity. As NASA targets sustained lunar habitation by 2030 and manned Mars missions in the 2040s, humanity confronts a silent but urgent crisis: how to feed astronauts far from Earth. Pre-packaged meals lose …

Introduction: Breaking the “One-Part, One-Material” Paradigm Modern defense systems operate in extreme environments where the performance and reliability of materials can dictate mission success or failure. Historically, engineers have been constrained by the “one-material-per-part” paradigm—selecting a single material for a given component based on compromise rather than optimization. This legacy …

Introduction Proteins are essential to virtually all biological processes, playing vital roles in cell signaling, metabolism, immunity, and more. Traditionally, protein production has relied on growing cells in bioreactors—a process that is time-consuming, expensive, and often inefficient, especially when manufacturing complex therapeutic proteins. A revolutionary shift is now underway in …

Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: Redefining Wave Manipulation Metamaterials are artificially engineered materials that manipulate electromagnetic, acoustic, and seismic waves in ways not found in nature. By carefully designing their internal micro- or nanoscale structures, these materials can achieve extraordinary behaviors—such as bending seismic waves around buildings to protect against earthquakes, diverting …