Manufacturing

‘Green industry wants to take our land’: the Arctic paradox

The Guardian: The stove gurgles as Sofia Olsson puts a chunk of wood into the fire, lifts the kettle and offers mugs of tea and grainy camp coffee to the small group reclining on reindeer skins around her. In the taiga…

Silicon spin qubits manufactured on an industrial scale

Physics World: Researchers in the Netherlands and the US have shown for the first time that qubits – the building blocks of quantum computers – can be mass-produced using standard processes developed for manufacturing conventional integrated circuits. The breakthrough paves the…

The Huge Endeavor to Produce a Tiny Microchip

New York Times: Some feature more than 50 billion tiny transistors that are 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. They are made on gigantic, ultraclean factory room floors that can be seven stories tall and run the length…

The Stunning Carbon Footprint of Plate Glass

IEEE Spectrum: Plate glass, like steel, is all around us. It is taken for granted, and most people have no idea how it is made. Although both materials are ancient, their production was fundamentally improved only after World War II—primary steelmaking…