Joy of cooking: a better way to bake high-tech materials

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's intelligent processing of materials program is designed to lower the costs of producing super-materials. IPM's goal is to develop a sophisticated set of sensors to monitor processing conditions.

Production management, Innovations, High technology industry, United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Advanced materials

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Shell shocked: nuts may inspire materials designers

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Scientist Julian Vincent specializes in biomimetics, a branch of materials science that examines natural substances for design ideas and attempts to transpose them into materials to be used in a variety of industries.

Research, Biomimetics, Vincent, Julian

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Zip code breakers: the Postal Service automates the reading of chicken scratch

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The US Postal Service entered into contracts with nine technology firms to develop a device that can process handwritten and typed zip codes that optical scanners are unable to decode.

Product development, Technology application, United States. Postal Service, Optical character readers

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